Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARKWAY

BARKWAY, a small own and a parish in Royston district, Herts. The town stands on a rising-ground, near the sources of the Quin river, 4½ miles SSE of Royston r. station. It has a post office‡ under Royston; was formerly a market town; has still a fair on 20 July; and, prior to the railway times, was a great thoroughfare on the northern road from London. It consists principally of one street; and most of its houses are modern Pop., 940. Houses, 195. The parish includes also the hamlets of Newsells and Nuthampstead. Acres, 5,060. Real property, £7,057. Pop., 1,221. Houses, 251. The property is divided among a few. The manor be longed to the Chesters and the Jenningses The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Reed, in the diocese of Rochester. The church is an ancient structure, and was recently restored, and the tower rebuilt. There are an Independent chapel, a reading room, a national school, and charities £63.


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

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