Great Barton, Suffolk
Historical Description
Barton, Great, a parish in Suffolk, 2½ miles NE of Bury St Edmunds. It contains the villages of Great Barton and East Barton, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bury St Edmunds. Acreage, 3764; population, 766. Barton Hall, a fine country seat originally built about the end of the reign of Elizabeth, and which has received several later additions, stands in this parish, in the midst of extensive pleasure grounds. It has a celebrated library and picture gallery. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £280 with residence. The church contains several monuments, and is a handsome edifice of flint and stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. There are four almshouses and some small charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Barton Holy Innocents | |
Hundred | Thedwastry | |
Poor Law union | Thingoe |
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 Great Barton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barton, Great, or Bramble (Holy Innocents))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Great Barton 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: