BURLEY, a tything and a chapelry in Ringwood district, Hants. The tything is in Ringwood parish, at the SW of the New Forest, 2 miles NW of Holmsley r. station, and 5 E by S of Ringwood; and has a post office under Ringwood. Real property, £1,606. Pop., 77. The chapelry includes the tything, but consists mainly of Burley-Ville and part of Burley-Walk; and was constituted in 1840. Acres, 2,500. Pop., 672. Houses, 142. Burley House is the seat ofEsdaile, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £100. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. 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.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))