Burnshill is a town in the Amahlathi Local Municipality under the Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
Burnshill is a former mission station of the Glasgow Missionary Society, established at the foot of the Amathole Mountains in 1831.
Burnshill was named after John Burns, minister of the Barony Church, Glasgow, one of the founders of the society. It was destroyed in 1851.