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West Burton is a very small hamlet and former civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, located in the north-east of the county within the district of Bassetlaw. It lies between the villages of Bole and Sturton-le-Steeple.The Saxon name “burh-ton” states a fortified farmstead with the village lying to the west of Gate Burton in Lincolnshire. ==Oxbow lakes== West Burton was originally based around a now-deserted village, which went into terminal decline when the course of the River Trent altered sometime around 1797.〔West Burton Deserted Village: (), report by Nottinghamshire Community Archaeology, retrieved 28 December 2011〕 For many years afterwards the total recorded population was less than 60,〔A Vision of Britain: West Burton (), retrieved 28 December 2011〕 and the residential part of the parish had effectively been reduced to just one or two scattered farms and their neighbouring cottages – notably Grange Farm and High House Farm. West Burton was originally on the side of the oxbow lake known as the Burton Round a similar one known as Bole Round or 'No Mans Friend' was situated just adjacent to Bole. A flood in February 1792, cut through 'No Mans Friend' which was subsequently reported in the local press. “A very singular event has lately taken place at Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire:- At Bole Ferry the Trent has formed itself a new channel, through which on Thursday se’nnight, two vessels passed abreast. Eighty or ninety acres of fine pasture land, the property of Sir E. Anderson, and Miss Hickman, are cut quite away from the Lincolnshire side of the river, and a complete island is formed between the late and present channel.” 〔Leicester Journal’ for the Friday 3rd 1792〕 At Burton Round the Trent here took a circular sweep that a boatman might have thrown his hat on shore and after sailing two miles taken it up again.〔The Rev J. Gurnhill in his "Monograph on the Gainsborough Parish Registers" 1890〕 The Burton Round is referred to in Shakespeare's 〔William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt.I., Act III, Sc. I〕 play Henry IV - Part 1 :“Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here, ::In quantity equals not one of yours: ::See how this river comes me cranking in, ::And cuts me from the best of all my land ::A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out. ::I'll have the current in this place damm'd up; ::And here the smug and silver Trent shall run ::In a new channel, fair and evenly; ::It shall not wind with such a deep indent, ::To rob me of so rich a bottom here.” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「West Burton, Nottinghamshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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