Barway, Cambridgeshire
Historical Description
Barraway, or Barway, a hamlet in Soham parish, Cambridge, near the river Ouse, 3¼ miles S by E of Ely. It is a chapelry to the vicarage of Soham.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Cambridgeshire | |
| Civil parish | Soham | |
| Hundred | Staploe | |
| Poor Law union | Newmarket |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Churches
Church of England
St. Nicholas' Chapel
The chapel of St. Nicholas, which is attached to the church of St. John the Baptist, Soham, is a small and plain building, consisting of chancel and nave only, and will seat 80 persons.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Barway from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cambridgeshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Barway are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cambridgeshire papers online:
- Cambridge Independent Press
- Cambridge Chronicle and Journal
- Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Cambridgeshire 1575 and 1619 is available online.