| Static Image Name: | Burstock, parish church of St. Andrew - geograph.org.uk - 447160.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Parish church of St Andrew |
| Country: | England |
| Official Name: | Burstock |
| Coordinates: | 50.8232°N -2.8229°W |
| Map Type: | Dorset |
| Population: | 120 |
| Population Ref: | [1] |
| Unitary England: | Dorset |
| Shire County: | Dorset |
| Post Town: | Beaminster |
| Postcode Area: | DT |
| Postcode District: | DT8 |
| Region: | South West England |
| Constituency Westminster: | West Dorset |
| Os Grid Reference: | ST422029 |
Burstock is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, 5miles south of Crewkerne. In the 2011 census the parish had 59 dwellings,[2] 49 households and a population of 120.[1]
In 1086 Burstock was recorded in the Domesday Book as 'Bureuuinestoch',[3] meaning a farm ('stoc') owned by either 'Burgwine' (a man) or 'Burgwynn' (a woman).[4] It had 12 households, 8 acres of meadow and 3 ploughlands. It was in Whitchurch Canonicorum Hundred, the lord was William Malbank and the tenant-in-chief was Earl Hugh of Chester.[5]
Before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the mid 16th century, Burstock was closely associated with the Cistercian monks at nearby Forde Abbey; at Whetham, in the north of the parish, the abbey developed a mill, and in 1316 the Abbot became Burstock's lord of the manor.[4]