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"BARWAY (Barkway or Barraway) is a hamlet and chapelry belonging to Soham, in the Fen lands, near the navigable Ouse, river Cam and Soham lode, 3½ miles south from Ely station on the London and North Eastern railway and 3½ north-west from Soham, in the petty sessional division and union of Newmarket and county court district of Soham; it consists only of a few farmhouses."
"The soil is various. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans."
[Kellys Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]BARRAWAY, a chapelry in the parish of SOHAM, hundred of STAPLOE, county of CAMBRIDGE, 2¼ (S.S.E) from Ely. The population is returned with the parish. The chapel is dedicated to St. Nicholas.
[Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England Vol. 1 - 1831]
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office under 'Soham'. In addition the 1841 and 1851 Census for Soham, of which Barway is part, is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The chapel of St. Nicholas, which is attached to the church of St. John the Baptist, Soham, is a small and plain building, consisting of chancel and nave only, and will seat 80 persons."
[Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire 1929]
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