Burton Joyce

Burton Joyce is a large village and civil parish in the Gedling district of Nottinghamshire, England, 7 miles east of Nottingham, bounded by Stoke Bardolph to the south and Bulcote to the north-east. The A612 links it to Carlton, Gedling and Netherfield to the south-west, and Lowdham to the north-east. Initially the site of an Iron age fort, it was occupied by Norman nobility, who founded St Helen's Church. From being a small farming community, Burton Joyce grew in the early Industrial Revolution, earning a reputation up to the 1920s for quality textile products. Many of today's population of 3,443 commute to Nottingham. It forms with Stoke Bardoph and Bulcote the Trent Valley ward of Gedling, which elects two councillors.

There is archaeological evidence such as a blade implement and arrowheads to suggest habitation as early as the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras. The Bronze Age finds in the area have proved more numerous. They have included a set of ring ditches, a rapier and several spearheads. The village is also noteworthy as the site of a substantial Iron Age hillfort, alternatively known as a bertune, which would later be pronounced "Burton" in the Norman fashion . Excavated in 1950–1951, The discovery of Gaulish-made samian ware and a distinctive coin, along with coarse-gritted and medieval pottery, have led archaeologists to believe that the fort was occupied by Roman soldiers sometime after their invasion of Britain in 43 AD under Vespasian. Such was not uncommon in other hill forts of the Iron Age, with Maiden Castle and Hod Hill, both in the county of Dorset, later occupied by Romans as strategic military bases.

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