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'''Bourton''' is a village and [[civil parish]] in north [[Dorset]], [[England]], situated north of the [[A303 road]] on the border with [[Somerset]] and [[Wiltshire]] between [[Mere, Wiltshire|Mere]] and [[Wincanton]]. The parish is the most northerly in Dorset and in the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]] had a population of 822.<ref name=ons/> ''Bourton'' is the most populous village in the [[electoral ward]] called Bourton and District. The District extends to [[Silton]] then south to [[Buckhorn Weston]] and [[Kington Magna]]. The total ward population at the abovementioned census was 1,905.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/bourton-and-district-e05003702#sthash.g4aVHskR.dpbs|title=Bourton and District 2011|access-date=28 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306044642/http://www.ukcensusdata.com/bourton-and-district-e05003702#sthash.g4aVHskR.dpbs|archive-date=6 March 2016|url-status=dead))</ref>  The village lies on the [[River Stour, Dorset|River Stour]] which passes through the historic Bourton Mill, once home to the second largest water wheel in Britain (((convert|60|ft|m)) in diameter) .

The village has two stores, a petrol station and a [[public house]]. The White Lion Inn stands on the High Street, which leads off what was the old main London to Exeter road before the village was bypassed to the south in 1992 by the [[A303]]. St George’s Church, which stands on one of the highest points in the village, was built via public subscription in 1810 and borders the primary school of the same name.

The point at which the counties of Dorset, Somerset and [[Wiltshire]] meet beside the lake at the rear of Bourton Mill is marked by [[Egbert's Stone]] which once fell into the River Stour, but was rescued and re-erected. In 878 it formed the rallying point for [[Alfred the Great]]'s troops before the [[Battle of Ethandun]]. His grandfather, [[Egbert of Wessex]], was said to have placed the stone there to settle the shire boundaries.<ref>((cite book |title=Curiosities of Somerset |last=Leete-Hodge |first=Lornie |year=1985 |publisher=Bossiney Books |location=Bodmin |isbn=0-906456-98-3 |page=6 ))</ref> Just over the county border is [[King Alfred's Tower]].

The mill, which is mentioned in the [[Domesday book]], has had many incarnations. As a linen mill it processed [[flax]] and supplied [[canvas]] to the [[Royal Navy]] but when industry declined it was developed into a [[foundry]] with a [[blast furnace]] and was one of the first places to make the new [[threshing machines]] in the West of England. It went on to build [[boiler]]s, [[steam lorry|steam lorries]] and [[gas engines]] as well as gaining a reputation as a builder of [[water wheels]]. During the [[First World War]] [[Mills Bomb]]s were produced here in vast quantities. After the Gasper dam burst upriver in the summer of 1917, much of the machinery was washed from the factory and it took a number of years for industry to restart on the site. When it did return in 1933 the factory entered its final phase as a [[dried milk]] processing plant and this continued up until its closure in 1998. It has now been demolished to make way for the Mill Lake development. 

Chaffeymoor House, located in an [[Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty]] at Chaffeymoor, is a large 17th-century house. It is a [[Listed building|Grade II listed building]].<ref>((NHLE|num=1305289|desc=Chaffeymoor House|grade=II|access-date=21 February 2024))</ref> Its gardens are open to the public.<ref>((cite web|url=http://apps.rhs.org.uk/rhsgardenfinder/documents/recgardens.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-03-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302225914/http://apps.rhs.org.uk/rhsgardenfinder/documents/RecGardens.pdf |archive-date=2 March 2012 |df=dmy ))</ref>

The nearest railway station is in neighbouring [[Gillingham, Dorset|Gillingham]]. Trains run on the Exeter to Waterloo line.

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