BURSTOW, a parish in the second division of the hundred of REIGATE, county of SURREY, 8 miles (S.B. by S:) from Reigate, containing 715 inhabitants. The wving is a rectory, in the exempt deanery of Croydon, which is within the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £15. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew.