Burley, or Burley-on-the-Hill, is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.

Thomas died without issue in 1381, when at the outbreak of the Peasants' Revolt, Henry was at Burley and travelled to Norwich to confront the rebels.

HM Prison Ashwell was located about one mile (2 km) west of the centre of the village on what was previously the site of a Second World War US Army base, home to part of the 82nd Airborne Division.

On New Year's Day 1596 he produced a performance of Titus Andronicus and a masque written by his brother-in-law Sir Edward Wingfield at Burley.

[8] Harington's daughter Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford sold Burley to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham in 1620 for £28,000.

[9] Buckingham produced Ben Jonson's masque The Gypsies Metamorphosed at Burley in August 1621 to celebrate his marriage to Katherine Manners.

[11] A new house, designed in the manner associated with Sir Christopher Wren, was built in the 1690s[12] by Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 7th Earl of Winchilsea, who was to a large extent his own architect and involved himself in the minutiae of construction, but employed Henry Dormer (died 1727) to supervise its building.

George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea, lived at the mansion in the late 18th century and used its grounds to stage a number of cricket matches, six of them first-class, between 1790 and 1793.