Burton Joyce
| Burton Joyce | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 The high street and Methodist church, Burton Joyce | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK647439 |
| Location: | 52°59’17"N, 1°2’10"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 3,443 (2011) |
| Post town: | Nottingham |
| Postcode: | NG14 |
| Dialling code: | 0115 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Gedling |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Gedling |
Burton Joyce is a large village in Nottinghamshire, seven miles east of Nottingham, between Stoke Bardolph to the south and Bulcote to the north-east. The A612 links it to Carlton and Netherfield to the south-west and Lowdham to the north-east.
From being a farming community, Burton Joyce grew in the early Industrial Revolution, earning repute up to the 1920s for its textile products. Many of today's 3,443 inhabitants commute to work or school in Nottingham.
History
Prehistory and the Romans
Mesolithic and Neolithic tools and arrowheads have been found in the area.[1][2] Bronze Age finds are more numerous: these include a set of ring ditches, a rapier and several spearheads.[3]
A substantial Iron Age hillfort existed here.[4] It was excavated in 1950–1951.[5] The discovery of Gaulish-made samian ware and a distinctive coin, along with coarse-gritted and mediæval pottery, have led archaeologists to believe that the fort was occupied by Roman soldiers at some time after the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD[6]
Middle Ages
The Domesday Book of 1086 refers to "a church and a priest, sixteen acres of meadow...In the time of King Edward, and then at the taking the said survey, valued at one mark of silver,".[7]
Robert de Jorz as Lord of the Manor (who served as Sheriff of Nottingham in 1331)[8] was granted twenty oak trees on the King's behalf in 1307 and may have used the timber to benefit the church, which at the time was dedicated to Oswald of Worcester.[9] Taking ownership of the Burton settlement, Robert added his surname to the village name, which became Burton Jorz and eventually Burton Joyce.[8]
The church at this time was closely associated with the nearby Shelford Priory. In 1348 Augustinian monks purchased the rights to handle many of the church's affairs for the considerable sum of £20; responsibilities included maintenance of the chancel and payment of the Vicar (the latter an obligation until the Reformation).[9]
Modern period
At some time around the Reformation, the village church, re-dedicated to St Helen. It fell into disrepair sometime before the 18th century.[9] Robert Thoroton in The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677) expressed distaste at various architectural features, deeming them obsolete and unattractive.[10] Efforts by churchwardens to do repairs were reversed in 1725 when a flood inflicted damage to a cost of £1,021.
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References
- ↑ "Lithic implement". Portable Antiquities Scheme. https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/469992.
- ↑ "About – The Burton Joyce Village Plan". The Burton Joyce Village Plan. http://bjvillageplan.co.uk/about.htm.
- ↑ "Ancient History and Archaeology of Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire". Archaeology UK. http://www.archiuk.com/cgi-bin/web-archi.pl?PlacenameFromPlacenameFinder=Burton%20Joyce&CountyFromPlacenameFinder=Nottinghamshire&distance=10000&ARCHIFormNGRLetter=SK&ARCHIFormNGR_x=64&ARCHIFormNGR_y=43&info2search4=placename_search.
- ↑ "A History of Nottinghamshire: Burton Joyce, Lowdham, and Gonalstone Spittal". Nottinghamshire History. http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/Brown1896/burtonjoyce.htm.
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 320143 – Burton Lodge Hillfort, Nottinghamshire
- ↑ Megalithic Portal: Burton Lodge Hillfort
- ↑ Burton Joyce: Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 3, pp 18-23
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Burton Joyce Heritage Trail #3". Burton Joyce & Bulcote Local History Society. http://www.bjblhs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/All-Boards-FINAL-Version_3.pdf.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Burton Joyce – History: Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project
- ↑ Burton Joyce Local History Group 1978, p. 39
- Burton Joyce Local History Group (1978). Burton Joyce & Bulcote: studies in the history of two Trent Valley villages. OCLC 612326855.