BURTON-JOYCE, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of THURGART.ON, county of NOTTINGHAM, Smiles (N.E. byE.) from Nottingham, containing, with the chapelry of Bulcote, 650 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £4. 19. 2., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield. The church, dedicated to St. Helen, is an ancient spacious structure, with a spire: in a niche of the north aisle is an upright effigy of an armed knight, standing on a lion, and bearing a shield on the left arm, said to represent Robert de Joaz, who lived in the reign of Edw. I.j and in the chancel are two altar-tombs of deceased members of the family of Stapelton, with inscriptions in Saxon characters. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The village is pleasantly situated on the northern bank of the river Trent. Courts leet and baron are held annually for the manor.