Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARNARDISTON

BARNARDISTON, corruptedly Berniston, a parish in Risbridge district, Suffolk; 3¾ miles NW of Clare r. station, and 12 SSE of Newmarket. Post Town, Clare, under Sudbury. Acres, 1,100. Real property, £1,489. Pop., 280. Houses, 51. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £191. Patron, the Rev. Val. Ellis. The church is good; and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Barnardiston CP/AP       Risbridge RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place names: BARNARDISTON     |     BERNISTON
Place: Barnardiston

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