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Synonyms for burstock or Related words with burstock
aldwick
halstock
cheselbourne
bucklesham
halloughton
woodton
pertenhall
athelington
evershot
burmington
mappowder
llangynin
chetnole
pypard
boarhunt
beausale
tibberton
hundleby
llancillo
souldrop
ombersley
gosbeck
trewen
chilfrome
kettleburgh
casthorpe
pinvin
broadwindsor
corscombe
poorton
pimperne
holmbush
ruishton
walesby
winkleigh
broadwas
besthorpe
dodderhill
tixover
pineham
dewsall
quernhow
roxwell
funtington
chilcombe
siddington
shelfanger
mountnessing
bricklehampton
mattishall
Examples of "burstock"
Burstock
is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, south of Crewkerne. In the 2011 census the parish had 59 dwellings, 49 households and a population of 120.
Before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the mid 16th century,
Burstock
was closely associated with the Cistercian monks at nearby Forde Abbey; at Whetham, in the north of the parish, the abbey developed a mill, and in 1316 the Abbot became Burstock's lord of the manor.
In 1086
Burstock
was recorded in the Domesday Book as 'Bureuuinestoch', meaning a farm ('stoc') owned by either 'Burgwine' (a man) or 'Burgwynn' (a woman). It had 12 households, 8 acres of meadow and 3 ploughlands. It was in Whitchurch Canonicorum Hundred, the lord was William Malbank and the tenant-in-chief was Earl Hugh of Chester.
Drimpton is sited on a small tributary of the River Axe which was unnamed until 2005 when, after a vote by villagers, it was officially named the "Little Axe". Neighbouring settlements include Clapton, Seaborough, Blackdown, Kittwhistle, Broadwindsor,
Burstock
, Greenham and Netherhay, the latter two being small hamlets virtually contiguous with Drimpton. At Greenham there was once a flax mill, part of which still survives as a factory making pet products. The village has two places of worship: the Anglican parish church of St Mary's and the Netherhay Methodist chapel. Three books, chronicling life in the area, have recently been compiled; the project was called 'Village Voices'.
Whetham was the son of Thomas Whetham and his wife Dorothy Hooper. He was baptised at
Burstock
on 25 November 1604. He was apprenticed in London to Edward Terrill, the baker to the Inner Temple. By 1632 he had completed his apprenticeship and was appointed steward to the court of the Worshipful Company of Bakers. He joined the "Company of the Plough" which had secured a patent from Sir Ferdinando Gorges on land in South-East Maine with the aim of emigrating there but the venture was unsuccessful and he continued his trade in the Company of Whitebakers.