Barton Mills
| Barton Mills | |
|---|---|
  Barton Mills Location withinSuffolk | |
| Population | 1,052 (2011)[1] |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Bury St Edmunds |
| Postcode district | IP28 |
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Barton Millsis a village andcivil parishin theWest Suffolk districtofSuffolk,England.The village is on the south bank of theRiver Lark.According toEilert Ekwallthe meaning of the village name is 'corn farm by the mill'.
History
[edit]The village was originally called Barton Parva (Little Barton).[2][3]The name changed to Barton Mills in the eighteenth century.
TheDomesday Bookof 1086 records the population of the village in 1086 to be 22 households.[4]
The village was once the holiday retreat forAlexander Fleming,the discoverer ofpenicillin,and there is a plaque on the wall outside his country home, The Dhoon, in the main street.[5]
Location
[edit]The village is near the Fiveways Roundabout, a busy junction where theA11London to Norwich trunk road, the A1065 towards North Norfolk and the A1101 (Long Sutton (Lincolnshire) to Bury St. Edmunds) roads meet.
Barton Mills Scarecrow Festival
[edit]Barton Mills hosts a biannualScarecrowFestival, held in July. The main road through the village is closed to traffic (except to residents) during the two-day-long festival, which includes musical bands, food, dancing, car boot sales at the local playing fields and viewing scarecrows created by local residents. This festival has been featured in theGuinness Book of World Records,boasting the most scarecrows ever made at any one time.[6]The record is currently held by the National Forest Adventure Farm nearBurton on Trent.[7]
Church
[edit]Barton Mills is served by the Church of St Mary as its parish church, a building dating back 800 years.[8]
Giacomo Savelli, who becamePope Honorius IVin 1285 was rector of Barton Mills church at the time of his election to the papacy, although there is no evidence that he ever visitedEngland.[9][10]
References
[edit]- ^UK Census(2011)."Local Area Report – Barton Mills Parish (E04009140)".Nomis.Office for National Statistics.Retrieved18 June2019.
- ^Barbara Vesey, The Hidden Places of East Anglia: Including Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, p135, (Travel Publishing Ltd), 3 Apr 2003
- ^George Kearsley, Kearsley's traveller's entertaining guide through Great Britain; or, A description of the principal cross-roads, p14, 1801
- ^"Barton [Mills] | Domesday Book".opendomesday.org.Retrieved18 June2019.
- ^"East Anglian Film Archive: Look East: Alexander Fleming's Country Home, 1960".eafa.org.uk.Retrieved18 June2019.
- ^"SCARECROWS AND SMILEY FACES".Website of robertleader!.2 May 2017.Retrieved18 June2019.
- ^"Largest display of scarecrows".Guinness World Records.7 August 2014.Retrieved18 June2019.
- ^"Barton Mills Church".
- ^"The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church".
- ^Edgar Powell.List of Rectors with sundry documents relating to church matters at Barton Mills(PDF).
External links
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Media related toBarton Millsat Wikimedia Commons
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