Buriton Village walk in Hampshire Part 2

Information from Buriton Heritage.
Heritage Bank

The parish of Buriton has some rich local heritage:
an agricultural and industrial heritage which includes years of sheep-grazing on the downs, thriving local hop gardens and local lime works; distinctive buildings using local malmstone materials; archaeological sites from roman, saxon and medieval times; and the special landscapes and natural history of the South Downs, with habitats for rare flora and fauna.

There are also local cultural connections: the Bonham Carter family and, before them, Edward Gibbon (the famous historian) have owned the local manor farm; and John Goodyer, one of Britain’s greatest botanists, also lived in the parish and is buried in the churchyard.

The Heritage Bank project collects together information about the history and heritage of the parish so as to share it more widely and record it for posterity.
The idea allows anyone to ‘pay in’ or ‘deposit’ information, experience and research and also to be able to ‘draw out’ information from the expanding pool of knowledge – to enhance their own appreciation of the local heritage and to develop their own studies.

We host an annual ‘Bygone Buriton’ Local History Exhibition (usually in September) which attracts scores of visitors from all over the country and elsewhere in the world as well as local families who are keen to expand their knowledge about the community’s rich local heritage. And we are also able to offer a signposting service if we are aware of others interested in similar areas of research.

Our early work produced a series of nine attractive, well-illustrated publications and there are also summaries of most of the findings in the ‘History’ part of this website. We now have over 3,250 photographs in our archives, many of which feature in our series of publications.

We have also made a number of oral history recordings in which residents have recalled their memories from yesteryear. These, along with any significant documents relating to the history of the community, have been deposited at the Hampshire Records Office in Winchester for safe-keeping and to enable widespread public access.

Our research into local topics is always ongoing and we are always looking for more old photographs of local people and places. If you have any information about the history or heritage of Buriton (including Weston, Nursted and Ditcham) please get in touch.

Buriton at War
The First World War
Our project to find out more about the impacts of the four-year conflict on life at home in Buriton – and to find out what happened to each of the men who left the parish to take part in the war – has now culminated in the publication of our latest book: “Buriton and the First World War: Through Local Eyes”.

Our research has tried to look at as many sources as possible and we summarised our findings, season by season, covering the activities and events of 100 years ago. Copies of these original summaries are available below.

If you have any comments on any of these summaries, if you know anything extra or are able to help in any other way, please let us know via [email protected]

Perhaps you have some family stories of wartime – or letters or diaries which suggest what life was like in this area in those troubled times? If so, please get in touch.

D-Day
Like many parts of the country, the parish of Buriton bore witness to a number of aspects of Operation Overlord, the top secret build up to D-Day, without ever knowing what was going on.

To mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day, and thanks to generous assistance from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Portsmouth City Council’s D-Day Museum, we were able to conduct research into local connections and publish our findings.

Our publication ‘Buriton & D-Day: the 1944 invasion through local eyes’ contains information about: the build-up of troops in and around the parish; parachuting into Normandy soon after midnight; landing on the beaches later on D-Day; and the follow-up operation (including the Mulbery Harbours).

Our search to identify the Regiments of Canadians who camped around the village in the spring / early summer of 1944 still continues. If you have any knowledge about these troops or their movements in the weeks before D-Day, please let us know: [email protected]

There several articals to read in First world war section.

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