BURITON, a tything and a parish in Petersfield district, Hants. The tything lies on the verge of the county, near the Guildford and New Portsmouth railway, 2 miles SSW of Petersfield; and has a post office under Petersfield. The parish includes also the tythings of Nurstead and Weston. Acres, 6,305. Real property, £8,030. Pop., 1,050. Houses, 196. The property is subdivided. Mapledurham here belonged to Gibbon, the historian; was sold by him to Lord Stowell; and belongs now to J. Bonham Carter, Esq. Grey limestone is quarried. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Petersfield, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £1,194.* Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is partly Norm an; has an ivy-clad square tower; and contains an ancient screen, a modern altar-piece, and very numerous monuments. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, three alms-houses, and charities £80.

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