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Coordinates: 52°06′40″N 0°29′56″E / 52.111°N 0.499°E / 52.111; 0.499

Barnardiston
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All Saints church, Barnardiston
Barnardiston is located in Suffolk
Barnardiston

 Barnardiston shown within Suffolk
Population 206 (2001 census)
District St Edmundsbury
Shire county Suffolk
Region East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
EU Parliament East of England
List of places: UK • England • Suffolk

Barnardiston (pronounced /bɑrnərˈdɪstən/ (bar-nər-diss-tən)[1])is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England. The village is located about three miles north-east of Haverhill.

All Saints Barnardiston

The name is first recorded as Bernardeston in 1086 (when the Domesday Book records the population to be 8) and means 'farmstead of a man called Beornheard.'[2]

Barnadiston is also the location of one of only 32 scheduled ancient monuments in Suffolk, the moats of a medieval rectory.[3]

References

  1. ^ Daniel Jones, Everyman's English Pronouncing Dictionary (13th ed., 1967), p. 40.
  2. ^ A.D. Mills, Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford UP, 2nd ed., 1998), p. 25.
  3. ^ Suffolk Annual Report, 2002



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