BURTON (WEST), a parish in the North-clay
division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of
NOTTINGHAM, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Gainsborough,
containing 3.7 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese
of York, endowed with £20 per annum private benefaction,
and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of
David Walters, Esq. The church is dedicated to
St. Helen. This parish is bounded on the east by the
river Trent.