Burton Joyce is a village on the river Trent in the south of Nottinghamshire.
A house and vintage sign post in Burton Joyce
Information
County:
Nottinghamshire
District:
Geling
Population:
3,443 (2011 census)
here has been settlement in the area since Mesolithic, there was an Iron Age fort in the area which was later occupied by the Romans. A village grew in Saxon times, by the Domesday Book the village had a church and meadowland around it. It's name is derived from the Norman pronunciation (Burton) of bertune or hill fort. The rest of the name comes from Robert de Jorz who became Lord of the Manor in the 13th century. The village became known as Burton Jorz, later Joyce. Robert de Jorz was behind the extension of the parish church of St Helen (in those days dedicated to St Oswald).
Burton Joyce has remained a largely agricultural parish into the Modern period, even now herds of cattle graze by the river next to the village. The village gained a railway station in 1846, the railway company being forced to buy out the vicar of the church who objected to the railway being near his vicarage, the company had to built for him a new vicarage further away!
