page_title: Buriton
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Buriton / History
caption_attribution_description: English: St Mary the Virgin parish church, Buriton, Hampshire, seen from the southwest
context_page_description: Buriton is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is located 2 miles south of Petersfield.
context_section_description: About a mile north-west of Buriton was the extensive manor of West Mapledurham, formerly the property of the Bilson and Legge families. and later the Gibbons and Bonham-Carters. Edward Gibbon, author of the classic Decline and fall of the Roman Empire, among other works, lived at Buriton Manor for much of the second half of the eighteenth century. John Goodyer, the seventeenth century botanist was buried at St Mary's and is commemorated with a stained glass window there.
  The local landowners until recent times, the Bonham-Carters, owned land surrounding Buriton and neighbouring villages where they often reared game for local shoots. The Legge family were gamekeepers for the Bonham-Carters for many years. Other forms of employment in the past have been in the local Lime Kilns which closed in 1920. Hop picking was also another form of employment in the past. Today, Buriton remains a pleasant and quiet village with a very strong sense of its own identity.  Employment needs are met outside the village.
  Notable in St Mary's church, is the medieval Sedilia, Norman arches, Pillars bearing carvings of water Lilies, Foliage and Scallops. There is a Norman Font in the Church. On the low side of the window in the South Chancel is a Mediaeval Mural Painting of The Virgin and Child (13th Century).
caption: St Mary's Church, Buriton
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