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Burley

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  • Places in England:
    • Burley, Hampshire
      Burley, Hampshire
      Burley is a village in the New Forest, Hampshire, England, with a wealth of tea rooms, gift shops, art galleries and a pick-your-own farm.There is evidence of Saxon occupation as the name Burley is composed of two Saxon words 'burgh', which means fortified palace, and 'leah', which means an open...

    • Burley, Herefordshire
    • Burley, Leeds
      Burley, Leeds
      Burley is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, characterised by the red brick terraced housing, much of which was built in the period 1899 - 1903 and green spaces. Sometimes called 'The Cardigan Triangle , it stretches north from the main Kirkstall Road, towards Hyde Park and Headingley...

    • Burley, Rutland
      Burley, Rutland
      Burley or Burley-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It is located two miles north-east of Oakham....

    • Burley, Shropshire
    • Burley, West Yorkshire, often known as Burley-in-Wharfedale

  • Places in the United States:
    • Burley, Idaho
      Burley, Idaho
      Burley is a city in Cassia and Minidoka counties in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Idaho. The population was 9,316 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Cassia County....

    • Burley Manor
      Burley Manor
      Burley Manor is a historic home located in Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland. It is a Federal-style brick house built about 1832.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.-External links:...

      , listed on the NRHP in Maryland
    • Burley, Washington
      Burley, Washington
      Burley is an unincorporated community in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. The community is located just north of the boundary with Pierce County, and about half way between Gig Harbor to the south and Port Orchard to the north. It is located at the head of the Burley Lagoon in Henderson...


  • Places in Australia:
    • Lake Burley Griffin
      Lake Burley Griffin
      Lake Burley Griffin is an artificial lake in the centre of Canberra, the capital of Australia. It was completed in 1964 after the Molonglo River—which ran between the city centre and Parliamentary Triangle—was dammed...


  • Charley Burley
    Charley Burley
    Charley Burley was a boxer of the 1940s, compiling a record of 83 wins , 12 losses, and 2 draws with 1 "no contest"...

    , American boxer
  • Craig Burley
    Craig Burley
    Craig William Burley is a Scottish former international association football player, who played for clubs including Chelsea, Celtic and Derby County. He is also the nephew of Scotland manager George Burley.-Career:...

    , Scottish footballer
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Place names

  • Places in England:
    • Burley, Hampshire
      Burley, Hampshire
      Burley is a village in the New Forest, Hampshire, England, with a wealth of tea rooms, gift shops, art galleries and a pick-your-own farm.There is evidence of Saxon occupation as the name Burley is composed of two Saxon words 'burgh', which means fortified palace, and 'leah', which means an open...

    • Burley, Herefordshire
    • Burley, Leeds
      Burley, Leeds
      Burley is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, characterised by the red brick terraced housing, much of which was built in the period 1899 - 1903 and green spaces. Sometimes called 'The Cardigan Triangle , it stretches north from the main Kirkstall Road, towards Hyde Park and Headingley...

    • Burley, Rutland
      Burley, Rutland
      Burley or Burley-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It is located two miles north-east of Oakham....

    • Burley, Shropshire
    • Burley, West Yorkshire, often known as Burley-in-Wharfedale

  • Places in the United States:
    • Burley, Idaho
      Burley, Idaho
      Burley is a city in Cassia and Minidoka counties in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Idaho. The population was 9,316 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Cassia County....

    • Burley Manor
      Burley Manor
      Burley Manor is a historic home located in Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland. It is a Federal-style brick house built about 1832.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.-External links:...

      , listed on the NRHP in Maryland
    • Burley, Washington
      Burley, Washington
      Burley is an unincorporated community in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. The community is located just north of the boundary with Pierce County, and about half way between Gig Harbor to the south and Port Orchard to the north. It is located at the head of the Burley Lagoon in Henderson...


  • Places in Australia:
    • Lake Burley Griffin
      Lake Burley Griffin
      Lake Burley Griffin is an artificial lake in the centre of Canberra, the capital of Australia. It was completed in 1964 after the Molonglo River—which ran between the city centre and Parliamentary Triangle—was dammed...


Human names

  • Charley Burley
    Charley Burley
    Charley Burley was a boxer of the 1940s, compiling a record of 83 wins , 12 losses, and 2 draws with 1 "no contest"...

    , American boxer
  • Craig Burley
    Craig Burley
    Craig William Burley is a Scottish former international association football player, who played for clubs including Chelsea, Celtic and Derby County. He is also the nephew of Scotland manager George Burley.-Career:...

    , Scottish footballer
  • Frederick R. Burley, founder of Berlei
    Berlei
    Berlei is a brand of women's lingerie and in particular bras and girdles.-History:The brand originated in Australia in 1917. Berlei undergarments are now sold in Australia by Pacific Brands and in the United Kingdom by Courtaulds Textiles....

  • Fulton Burley
    Fulton Burley
    Fulton Burley was an Irish-Canadian performer, most widely known for his work in Disneyland. Born in Tipperary, Ireland, and raised in Ontario, Canada, Fulton came to the United States in 1943 after a telephone audition landed him the singing lead in Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Revue on Broadway...

    , Irish-Canadian musician known for his work for Disney
  • Gillian Beer
    Gillian Beer
    Dame Gillian Beer, DBE is a British literary critic.-Career:Born as Gillian Patricia Kempster Burley , Beer studied English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford....

     (born Burley), British literary critic
  • George Burley
    George Burley
    George Elder Burley is a Scottish football manager and former player. Burley had a proffesional career spanning 21 years as a player making 628 appearances and earning 11 scotland caps...

    , Scottish footballer and manager
  • Jane Burley
    Jane Burley
    Jane Burley is a female field hockey midfielder from Scotland. She played club hockey for Giffnock Hutchesons Ladies, and made her debut for the Women's National Team in 1999. Burley works as a firefighter. Her mother played tennis for Lancashire.-References:*
    ...

    , Scottish field hockey midfielder
  • Jos Burley
    Jos Burley
    Jocelyn Ann Burley has played six women's test matches and two women's one-day internationals for the New Zealand women's cricket team. In 1966 she took 7-41 against England to claim the New Zealand's women's test matches....

    , member of New Zealand's women's cricket team
  • Joseph Leonard Burley
    Joseph Leonard Burley
    Joseph Leonard Burley was the founder of the Burley Football Company, which later became part of the Burley-Sekem group....

    , founder of the Burley Football Company
  • Kay Burley
    Kay Burley
    Kay Burley is an English television newsreader. She currently anchors the Afternoon Live programme on Sky News.-Biography:...

    , English television newscaster
  • Nick Burley
    Nick Burley
    Nick Burley was an American boxer from 1890 until 1907. In 1902 he defeated Frank "Paddy" Slavin to win the Heavyweight Championship of the Yukon Territory...

    , American boxer
  • Siaha Burley
    Siaha Burley
    Siaha Burley is an arena football wide receiver who is currently a free agent in the Arena Football League. He played college football at Central Florida.-High school years:...

    , American arena football player
  • Simon de Burley
    Simon de Burley
    Sir Simon de Burley was holder of the offices of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle between 1384-88, and was a Knight of the Garter....

    , English knight, court official, and childhood friend of Richard II
    Richard II of England
    Richard II was the eighth King of England of the House of Plantagenet. He ruled from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. Richard was a son of Edward, the Black Prince and was born during the reign of his grandfather, Edward III...

  • W. J. Burley
    W. J. Burley
    William John Burley was a Cornish crime writer, best known for his books featuring the detective Charles Wycliffe, who became the basis of the popular Wycliffe television series throughout the mid 90's....

    , author of the Wycliffe detective novels
  • Walter Burley
    Walter Burley
    Walter Burley was a medieval English logician. He was a Master of Arts at Oxford in 1301, and a fellow of Merton College, Oxford until 1305. He studied theology in Paris from before 1310, and by c.1320 he was a doctor of theology at Paris. He was a fellow of the Sorbonne by 1324...

    , medieval English logician
  • Walter Burley Griffin
    Walter Burley Griffin
    Walter Burley Griffin was a US architect and landscape architect, who is best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city...

    , American architect
  • Burley Mitchell
    Burley Mitchell
    Burley Mitchell, Jr. is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. At age 15, Mitchell dropped out of high school to join the United States Marine Corps, only to be kicked out when his age was discovered...

    , chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court

Others

  • Burley (tobacco)
    Burley (tobacco)
    Burley tobacco is a light air-cured tobacco used primarily for cigarette production. In the United States it is produced in an eight state belt with approximately 70% produced in Kentucky. Tennessee produces approximately 20% with smaller amounts produced in Indiana, North Carolina, Missouri,...

  • Burley Design Cooperative
    Burley Design Cooperative
    Burley Design LLC is a company based in Eugene, Oregon, United States that has been producing a variety of outdoor family products since 1978. Burley is best known for their signature blue and yellow children's bicycle trailers which were one of the first brands to hit the market in the early 80s...

  • Burley-Sekem
    Burley-Sekem
    Burley-Sekem is a company that makes and sells Burley brand footballs used in Australian rules football and Sekem brand jumpers or guernseys. The company has been manufacturing footballs in Australia since 1906 when the Burley brothers began making Burley brand balls in East Perth...

    , a brand of leather ball kicked in the game of Australian rules football
    Australian rules football
    Australian football, also commonly referred to as Australian rules football, football, or Aussie rules, colloquially as footy, and historically as Australasian football or Victorian football, is a variant of football played between two teams of 18 players, plus four interchange players, outdoors on...

  • Re Burley
    Re Burley
    Re Burley , 1 U.C.L.J. 34, was a decision on extradition by the Court of Common Pleas of Upper Canada. Though made two years before Confederation, the case has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in mobility rights and extradition cases over a century later.-Decision:The decision was made by...

    , a Canadian court decision
  • Burley, Fish bait Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...

  • Burleigh
    Burleigh
    -In Australia:*Burleigh, a suburb of Melbourne*Burleigh Heads, a suburb of Gold Coast, Queensland*Burleigh Head National Park-In the United Kingdom:*Burleigh, Bracknell Forest*Burleigh, Gloucestershire*Burleigh, Perth and Kinross...

  • Berlei
    Berlei
    Berlei is a brand of women's lingerie and in particular bras and girdles.-History:The brand originated in Australia in 1917. Berlei undergarments are now sold in Australia by Pacific Brands and in the United Kingdom by Courtaulds Textiles....