Burrington

From Domesday to the dawn of the twentieth century, Burrington changed little. In 1806 there were three farms squeezed into this small manor, then said to be worth ten shillings. fifty years ago there was still little more than that to be found in "bureton". The ancient name itself means "boors" or "peasants" and "tun or "farm" (there is another Burrington in Devon, a small and very ld village just outside Chumleigh). The principal dwellings here before the war were Burrington Farm, Burraton Farm, Burrington House, Burrington Lodge and Burrington, the third and smaller farm. At the time of the Norman Conquest, 1066 the Saxon, Alwin, owned the manor of burrington.