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"BOURTON is a chapelry to Gillingham; the village which is irregular and scattered, contains a new church, or rather a chapel of ease, erected by subscriptions; it is dedicated to St. George. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of a committee of twelve persons. The manufactures here are of the same nature as those of Gillingham, At the northern extremity of this hamlet, on the banks of the Stour, is placed a boundary stone, where meet the verge of the counties of Dorset, Somerset and Wilts. The chapelry contains about 800 inhabitants." [Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory of Dorsetshire, 1830.]
Michael Day provides pictures and bibliography for Bourton church dedicated to St. George as a part of UKOLN: The UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath.
Bourton from "The Dorset Page"