West Burton, Nottinghamshire
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 West Burton Church, c. 1885, shortly before its demolition |
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| West Burton shown within Nottinghamshire | |
| OS grid reference | SK800851 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Retford |
| Postcode district | DN22 |
| Police | Nottinghamshire |
| Fire | Nottinghamshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
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West Burton is a very small hamlet and former civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, located in the north-east of the county within the district of Bassetlaw. It lies between the villages of Bole and Sturton-le-Steeple.The Saxon name "burh-ton" states a fortified farmstead with the village lying to the west of Gate Burton in Lincolnshire.
West Burton was originally based around a now-deserted village, which went into terminal decline when the course of the River Trent altered sometime around 1797. For many years afterwards the total recorded population was less than 60, and the residential part of the parish had effectively been reduced to just one or two scattered farms and their neighbouring cottages – notably Grange Farm and High House Farm. West Burton was originally on the side of the oxbow lake known as the Burton Round; a similar oxbow lake known as Bole Round or 'No Mans Friend' was situated just adjacent to Bole. A flood in February 1792, cut through 'No Mans Friend' which was subsequently reported in the local press.
“A very singular event has lately taken place at Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire:- At Bole Ferry the Trent has formed itself a new channel, through which on Thursday se’nnight, two vessels passed abreast. Eighty or ninety acres of fine pasture land, the property of Sir E. Anderson, and Miss Hickman, are cut quite away from the Lincolnshire side of the river, and a complete island is formed between the late and present channel.”
At Burton Round the Trent here took a circular sweep that a boatman might have thrown his hat on shore and after sailing two miles taken it up again. The Burton Round is referred to in Shakespeare's play Henry IV - Part 1
The ecclesiastical parish of West Burton was joined to the benefice of North Wheatley in 1884, even though these two adjacent places had no direct connection by road. The disused church of St Helen, founded in medieval times and previously served by a perpetual curate, was finally demolished around 1886, although annual harvest thanksgiving services were later revived upon its site in the 20th century, and these continued for many years.
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