Bierton's a village in Buckinghamshire, England, about half a mile northeast of the town of Aylesbury. The mainly farming parish's 10 km² in size. The parish church's dedicated to St James. The village name was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Bortone and means "farmstead near a stronghold" in modern English. The hamlets of Broughton, Broughton Crossing and Burcott lie within Bierton with Broughton civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district which in 2001 had a population of… (More on Bierton)