Burtville is an abandoned town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located 29 kilometres (18 mi) south east of Laverton.

[3] The town was eventually named after the grandson of the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, Sir Archibald Burt.

Archibald Edmund Burt JP was the chief mining warden of the Mount Margaret Goldfield.

[4] The town was gazetted as Merolia in 1902 but was regazetted to compliment Archibald Edmund Burt later the same year.

Another privately owned ten stamp battery that allowed public access known as The sons of Westralia was also operating at the time.