Barnardiston
| Barnardiston | |
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 All Saints church, Barnardiston |
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| Barnardiston shown within Suffolk | |
| Population | 168 (2011 census) |
| OS grid reference | TL710480 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Haverhill |
| Postcode district | CB9 |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
Barnardiston (/bɑːrnərˈdɪstən/ bar-nər-DIS-tən) is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England. The village is located about four miles north-east of Haverhill off the A143. The name has an older form of Bernardeston means 'farmstead of a man called Beornheard.'. Prior to the mid eighteenth century it often listed as "Barnardiston otherwise Chilbourne", and it is listed as Cileburna in the Domesday book The first Domesday listing is of the lands of Earl Ralph, which Goodrich the Steward kept in Suffolk in the King's hand. It consisted of a socman holding 30 acres. There were a bordar, a ploughteam, and 6 acres of meadow, formerly valued at ten shillings. then at twenty shillings.'The other Domesday listing is part of the great possessions of Richard, son of Earl Gislebert. Goodwin, a freeman, held 2 carucates of land, i villein, 4 bordars, formerly 2 ploughteams then one only, 6 acres of meadow, one mill, and one rouncy. The value had been forty shillings., but was then fifty shillings. Geoffrey, son of Hamon, then held over Goodwin.
All Saints church is in the centre of Barnardiston. The church was built before the thirteenth century (according to English Heritage the chancel is thirteenth century but the nave is of earlier origin ). It is situated in the South West corner of the outer enclosure of the medieval manor (see below) Barnardiston Parish forms part of the Stourhead Benefice, sharing a rector with Kedington, Little Wratting, Great Wratting, Little Thurlow, Great Thurlow, Little Bradley and Great Bradley. Records of a Rector at Barnardiston go well back into the sixteenth century with Thomas Dyeson being the earliest recorded holder in 1555. Between 1815 and around 1860 Barnardiston shared a Rector with Hundon, having only a stipendary curate, but again for around a century from 1860 it had its own Rector and rectory for a population of less than a hundred, before the present arrangements started.
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