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"BARRINGTON is a parish and village, on the river Cam, 1 mile north from Foxton station on the Hitchin and Royston section of the London and North Eastern railway, 7 south-west from Cambridge and about the same distance north-east from Royston, in the hundred of Wetherley, district of Orwell, petty sessional division of Arrington and Melbourn, union and county court district of Royston, rural deanery of Barston and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely. "
"The soil is clunch, clay and gault; subsoil, gault. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 2,275 acres of land and 7 of water; the population in 1921 was 459."
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard of All Saints are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office for the years 1717-1947. The Independent churchyard is recorded for the years 1813-1938.
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office. In addition the 1851 Census for Barrington is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of All Saints is a building of stone, in the Early English and Decorated styles, with Perpendicular windows and timber work, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave aisles, north and south porches, a chapel contiguous to the north aisle and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 6 bells the chancel, which is Decorated retains a piscina and priest's doorway and has four windows with flowing tracery; the nave piers are Early English, dating from about 1180, but the clerestory is Perpendicular; in the tower is an aumbry with ancient oak doors: the north chapel, used as the burial place of the Bendyshe family, is of Perpendicular date: the nave is seated with open benches of the 15th century, handsomely carved, and the pulpit is enriched with Jacobean work: the font, a square basin of Norman date, stands on a Decorated base: the rood staircase is perfect : in the south aisle is a fine oak chest, bound with iron: the church plate bears the date 1569: the church was repaired during the period 1874-91 at a cost of £851 : the church tower was repaired in 1920 at the sole cost of C. M. Agnew esq. of Durrant's, Croxley Green, under the direction of Mr. Comper: there are 300 sittings. The register of marriages dates from the year 1570; baptisms, 1572; burials, 1570."
"There is a Congregational chapel first founded in 1667, the present building being erected in 1856 on a site given by John Coleman esq. and holding 500 persons. "
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]
Barrington, All Saints: Records of baptisms 1573-1984, marriages 1571-1994, burials 1570-1891, banns for 1757-1956 reside in the Cambridge Record Office.The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1618, 1670-1800 and 1813-1862 can be found in the Cambridge University Library. Indexes to transcripts exist in Cambridge Record Office for baptisms 1570-1890, marriages 1571-1890, and burials 1570-1890. The parish records 1570-1890 are available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
Barrington Independent: Records exist for baptisms 1799, 1820-37 (on microfilm), 1871-1912, burials 1912-26.
"On the village green is a memorial of Doulting stone, erected in 1920, in memory of the men of the perish who fell In the Greet War 1914-18."
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]The Barrington War Memorial has been transcribed and and the men researched, it stands on the green outside the parish church of All Saints. A further memorial exists inside the church of All saints.
Land Tax: records were compiled afresh each year and contain the names of owners and occupiers in each parish, but usually there is no address or place name. These records reside in the Cambridge Record Office for the years 1798 (on microfilm) and 1810-1948.
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[Last updated 20 March 2003 Martin Edwards]