Barnardiston, Suffolk

Historical Description

Barnardiston (corruptedly Berniston), a parish in Risbridge union, Suffolk, 5 miles NW of Clare, and 3 NE by E from Haverhill station on the G.E.R. Post town, Clare, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1123; population, 181. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £210 with residence. The church is an ancient and interesting building of flint in the Norman and Early English styles, and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

Administration

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

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Barnardiston from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barnardiston (All Saints))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Barnardiston 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 Suffolk papers online:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press