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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Barnby St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Mutford and Lothingland |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Barnby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barnby (St. John the Baptist))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Barnby 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: