St Mary's Church
Service With a Smile – Or Service With a Difference
Do you know about this service, held on the first Sunday of the month? If your image of a church service is of an event without laughter and where children are shushed if they make a murmur, think again. Here Read more
History
From Anarchy to Unification: the Anglo-Saxons in Wiltshire
Our place in history The story so far. We have seen evidence of Neolithic and Roman activity in the parish of Nettleton. Here we take a look at the early medieval period, and of the presence of Saxons and Vikings Read more
History
Hydropower: a history of the By Brook
Our Landscape, Our History: Water Mills Deriving from the Burton and Broadmead Brooks, the By Brook descends some 200m in 25km from its highest point to its confluence with the River Avon. The By Brook has powered at least 20 Read more
History
Burton: landscape and land use
Our landscape, our history Land use is often determined by the underlying physical environment, especially geology, topography and hydrology. Here we take a high level view of the most important physical characteristics of Wiltshire, from which we may extrapolate why Read more
History
Cropmarks: shadows of the past
Elsewhere on this website, we have seen archaeological evidence of human activity in the Nettleton area, such as Neolithic burial mounds, Roman shrines and Medieval causeways. These are features either visible on the ground or which were discovered through excavation. Read more
BCA Minutes
BCA General Committee – notes of meeting 24th January 2023
Minutes from the meeting of the Burton Community Association General Committee held on 24th January 2023 are presented below.
BCA Minutes
BCA Trustees – notes of meeting 24th January 2023
Minutes from the meeting of the Burton Community Association Trustees held on 24th January 2023 are presented below.
History
Landscape Archaeology
Our landscape, our history The landscape we see today tells us much about how we lived in the past. It has evolved over thousands of years of human activity, settlement and exploitation of the land. We take a look at Read more
Book Club
Burton Book Club – group read for March 2023
The Ghost by Robert Harris Description A body washes up on the deserted coastline of America’s most exclusive holiday retreat. But it’s no open-and-shut case of suicide. The death of Robert McAra is just the first piece of the jigsaw Read more