BURLEY PARISH

Introduction

Burley is located towards the western edge of the New Forest, 4 miles (6 km) south-east of the town of Ringwood.[3] The village is fairly scattered, and apart from the village centre, there is Burley Street to the north; Bisterne Close to the east; and the Mill Lawn area to the north-east.[4] Burley has a post office, newsagents, butcher's shop, and village stores, as well as tea rooms, a Hippy/festival clothing shop, antique shops, art galleries and gift shops, pubs and a large Cycle Shop and Cycle Hire centre.[3] The village still practises the old tradition of commoning, allowing animals to graze on the open Forest, and ponies and cattle roam freely around the village.[5] Burley is home to a football club[6] and a cricket club.[7] Burley Golf Club can be found to the southeast of the village.[8] The village is surrounded by the open heathland of the New Forest,[9] containing a complex of woodland, heathland and acid grassland, shrub and valley bog, supporting a richness and diversity of wildlife.[10] Burley is twinned with Beurlay, Charente-Maritime, France. Burley Fire Station is thought to be the only fire station in the country with a cattle grid at the entrance.

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Parish Information

Parish statistics

Area	4,553 hectares
Population	1,296 ⁽²⁰²¹⁾
Density	28 people/km²
Mean age	48.2
Ward	Bransgore and Burley
District	New Forest
Postcodes	BH23, BH24
ONS ID	E04004561