Burley, Hampshire

Description
Burley, a township in Hants. It is situated at the SW of the New Forest, 2 miles NW of Holmsley station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 E by S of Ringwood. It has a post office under Ringwood, which is the money order office; telegraph office, Holmsley (R.S.) It was made a township by order of the Poor Law Board in 1868, when those parts of the New Forest known as Burley Walk and Holmsley Walk were added; the whole is now styled Burley township. Acreage, 11,275; population, 602. The living is in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £100, in the gift of the Vicar of Ringwood. An ancient church here is supposed to have been demolished by the Conqueror when making the New Forest. The present church is a brick structure in modern Gothic. There is a dissenting chapel.