Burton Joyce is a large village and civil parish in the Gedling district of Nottinghamshire, England, 7 miles east of Nottingham, bounded by Stoke Bardolph to the south and Bulcote to the north-east. The A612 links it to Carlton, Gedling and Netherfield to the south-west, and Lowdham to the north-east. Initially the site of an Iron age fort, it was occupied by Norman nobility, who founded St Helen's Church. From being a small farming community, Burton Joyce grew in the early Industrial Revolution, earning a reputation up to the 1920s for quality textile products. Many of today's population of 3,443 commute to Nottingham. It forms with Stoke Bardoph and Bulcote the Trent Valley ward of Gedling, which elects two councillors.