Barningham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Barningham, a parish in Suffolk, 2 miles S of the Little Ouse river, and 7½ S of Harling Road station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Bury-St-Edmunds; money order office, Hopton; telegraph office, Ixworth. Acreage, 1620; population of the civil parish, 403; of the ecclesiastical, 581. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Coney-Weston, in the diocese of Ely; joint net yearly value, £750 with residence. The church is a flint building, with tower, and has a brass of 1499. There are Wesleyan Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapels, and some small charities.

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.

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 Barningham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barningham (St. Andrew))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Barningham 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