| Burley | |
|---|---|
 Burley on the Hill Mansion | |
  Burley Location within Rutland | |
| Area | 4.8 sq mi (12 km2) [1] |
| Population | 577 2001 census[2] |
| • Density | 120/sq mi (46/km2) |
| OS grid reference | SK882104 |
| • London | 86 miles (138 km) SSE |
| Unitary authority | |
| Shire county | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | OAKHAM |
| Postcode district | LE15 |
| Dialling code | 01572 |
| Police | Leicestershire |
| Fire | Leicestershire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Burley, or Burley-on-the-Hill, is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It is two miles (3 km) north-east of Oakham. The population of the civil parish was 577 at the 2001 census, including Egleton, but reducing to 325 at the 2011 census.[3]
The village's name means 'wood/clearing with a fortification'.[4]
In the parish, north of the village, is Alstoe, the site of a possible small motte-and-bailey castle,[5] and part of the deserted medieval village of Alsthorpe.[6] Alstoe was the name of a hundred.
In 1379 Sir Thomas le Despenser granted the Burley manor to trustees, two of whom were his brother Henry, Bishop of Norwich and his nephew Hugh le Despenser. Thomas died without issue in 1381, when at the outbreak of the Peasants' Revolt, Henry was at Burley and travelled to Norwich to confront the rebels.[7]
The Old Smithy on the village green was used in advertisements for Cherry Blossom shoe polish in the 1920s.
HM Prison Ashwell was located about one mile (2 km) west of the centre of the village on what was previously the site of a Second World War US Army base, home to part of the 82nd Airborne Division. Ashwell Prison closed in March 2011 and has been redeveloped as Oakham Enterprise Park, a business park for office and light industrial use.
- ^ "A vision of Britain through time". University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 31 January 2009.
- ^ "Rutland Civil Parish Populations" (PDF). Rutland County Council. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2009.
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "Key to English Place-names".
- ^ Early Castles in the Medieval Landscape of Rutland Oliver Creighton; p26-8
- ^ Alstoe Moot and part of Alsthorpe deserted medieval village, Burley – 1010671| Historic England Retrieved 2018-02-18.
- ^ 'Parishes: Burley', A History of the County of Rutland: Volume 2 (1935), pp. 112–119. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66217 Date accessed: 14 May 2010.