Bierton is a village in Buckinghamshire, England, about half a mile northeast of the town of Aylesbury. The mainly farming parish is 10 km² in size. The parish church is 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 the Bierton with Broughton parish boundary. The development of Bierton as a village was hampered… (More on Bierton)