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Barnby, Suffolk

Historical Description

Barnby, a parish in Suffolk, near the river Waveney, 3½ miles from the Carlton-Colville station on the G.E.R., and 4 E by S of Beccles. It has a post office under Beccles, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1093; population, 313. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Mutford, in the diocese of Norwich. The church, chiefly of the 14th century, contains ancient frescoes of the Crucifixion, the Last Judgment, and St Christopher, discovered in 1881. There is a Wesleyan chapel. The village also possesses an iron foundry and manufactory of agricultural implements.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorfolk 
Ecclesiastical parishBarnby St. John the Baptist 
HundredMutford and Lothingland 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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Land and Property

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Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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DistrictWaveney
CountySuffolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtNR34
Post TownBeccles

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