BURTON-upon-STATHER, a parish (formerly a market
town) in the northern division of the wapentake of
MANLEY, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 35
miles (N. by W.) from Lincoln, and 164 (N. by W.)
froia London, containing 762 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, with which the rectory of Flixborough
was -consolidated in 1729, in the archdeaconry of Stow,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£12, and in the patronage of Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart.
The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The village
is situated on the brow of a hill, at the foot of which
flows the river Trent, where there is a wharf, or staith,
commonly called Stather, whence the adjunct to the
name. It was formerly of much greater extent than it
is-at present, having been greatly reduced by a tempest
that entirely destroyed several of the houses, and injured
the church: part of it was also damaged, in 1777, by
the explosion of a brig laden with gunpowder; and the
increase of Gainsborough, a neighbouring market-town,
has contributed still further to its decline. The market
was on Tuesday: fairs,are held on the first Monday in
May, and the first Monday after Martinmas. On the
summit of Alkborough hill is a kind of labyrinth, called
the Julian tower, supposed to be the remains of a Roman '
fortification.