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Adding local short description: "Hamlet in Buckinghamshire, England", overriding Wikidata description "hamlet in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom"

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{{Short description|Hamlet in Buckinghamshire, England}}
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{{About|a settlement in Buckinghamshire||Burston (disambiguation){{!}}Burston}}
[[File:Burston Hill Farm Fields - geograph.org.uk - 181200.jpg|thumb|Fields in Burston Hill Farm]]

'''Burston''' is a small [[hamlet (place)|hamlet]] near [[Rowsham]] in [[Buckinghamshire]] about {{convert|3|mi|spell=in}} north of [[Aylesbury]]. It is in the [[civil parish]] of [[Aston Abbotts]].<ref name="History of Bucks">{{cite book|chapter=Parishes: Aston Abbots|title=A History of the County of Buckingham|volume=3|location=London|year=1925|pages=328–330|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol3/pp328-330|publisher=Victoria County History}}</ref> Its name derives from the Old English personal name ''Briddel'' + ''þorn'' (“thornbush”).<ref>{{cite book|editor=Patrick Hanks|year=2003|title=Dictionary of American Family Names|volume=1|location=New York City|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=258|isbn=978-0-19-508137-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vG7MZ9J6dAgC&pg=PA258}}</ref>

There used to be a village of Burston, which was recorded separately to Aston Abbots in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086. The village was deserted after its residents were evicted in 1488, to clear arable farmland for sheep grazing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/theme/tbc523|title=Settlement desertion|website=Buckinghamshire's Heritage Portal|publisher=Buckinghamshire Council}}</ref> The desertion was later investigated by [[Thomas Wolsey]], who found that after evicting at least 60 people, the landlord raised rents from {{nobreak|£13 1s 8d}} a year to £40.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beresford |first1=M. W. |last2=St Joseph |first2=J. K. S.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0eo8AAAAIAAJ&dq=Burston,+Buckinghamshire&pg=PA123 |title=Medieval England: An Aerial Survey |year=1979|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-21961-7|page=123|chapter=Burston}}</ref>

Modern Burston consists of a few farms, including Burston Hill Farm, Lower Burston, and Burston Ridge Farm, but in the valley below [[Earthworks (archaeology)|earthworks]] of the old settlement remain and are a [[scheduled monument]].<ref>{{Historic England|num=1017778|desc=The medieval village of Burston|accessdate=20 April 2024}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Enclosure]], the removal of common rights that people had to farmlands and parish commons.
* [[Fleet Marston]] and [[Littlecote, Buckinghamshire|Littlecote]], other villages near to Aylesbury that were deserted after enclosure.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MBC3163 Monument record 0104000100 - Burston DMV], aerial photographs of the Burston village earthworks.

[[Category:Deserted medieval villages in Buckinghamshire]]
[[Category:Forcibly depopulated communities in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Hamlets in Buckinghamshire]]

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Burston, Buckinghamshire - Revision history

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