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By 1087 it was recorded in the Domesday Book that Barrington comprised 54 households (about 270 people). There were two and a half mills; East Mill (shared with Foxton when we let them !),...
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The only substantial estate in Barrington in 1066 was the two hides held in demesne byChatteris Abbey. They were later reckoned as aquarter of the vill, paying 5s. of the £1 which itowed to the sheriff's aid. Although they were held inchief in 1086, they were claimed in 1279 to be a fee ofthe barony of Munfitchet, but the abbesses usedtheir depende...
Barrington's only preConquest manorial estate was that of ChatterisAbbey. In 1086 its demesne of one hide was cultivated by 13 bordars and cottars, who supplied 2 outof 3 plough-teams, and by 3 servi. The three smallerlay estates had no villani or demesne ploughs.Robert Gernon, however, had appropriated asdemesne almost half of the 7½ hides once he...
View of frankpledge inBarrington, with the assize of bread and ale, wasclaimed under Edward I by Chatteris Abbey byprescription, and by Walter de Huntercombeallegedly under a charter to his predecessors. (fn. 245) Warin of Barrington also held a court for histenants, for which he claimed in 1281 a case fromhis lord's manorial court. (fn. 246) Under...
The benefice of Barrington was originally a rectory, whose advowson belonged to thesuccessive lords of the principal manor, the Munfitchets and their descendants. (fn. 270) In 1217 the rector'sincome was taxed at £16 a year, in 1254 and 1276 at£42 13s. 4d., in 1291 at £40. (fn. 271) As one of the richestlivings in the diocese, Barrington was held o...
Congregationalism flourished in Barrington from the mid 17th to the mid20th century. Francis Holcroft's congregation atBassingbourn consisted of many people from parishesbesides his own, and after he had been ejected fromthat parish in 1662 his congregation was dividedinto separate societies, one of which met at Barrington. (fn. 347) Although Rober...
A schoolmaster was recorded in1601, 1610, when he was also the stipendiarycurate, and 1616. (fn. 387) There was a school in 1719 (fn. 388) which by 1724 was in association with the S.P.C.K. (fn. 389) In 1730 it was supported partly by subscription andpartly by Trinity College, (fn. 390) which continued to giveit £5 or £6 a year in the 18th and earl...
John Prescott, bydeed in 1508, gave property later described as theTown House or Gilbards with an adjoining closeand land called the Town Marsh, (fn. 419) which producedc. £4 net in 1788. (fn. 420) Thomas Lane, by will proved in1546, left the rent of a house and about 3 a. on trustto pay the taxes of the poor; (fn. 421) in the 1590s a rivaltitle wa...
Barrington Village Hall. The hall was built circa 1928 on land given by a local landowner, whose family left the village in 1937. The Hall was incorporated as a Charity in 1939 no. 300360....
The interior was virtually gutted in 1825, and restored in 1921–25 by James Edwin Forbes and John Duncan Tate for A.A. Lyle having passed to the National Trust in 1908. It is a Grade I listed building. [4] The village has a traditional public house called the Barrington Boar, which formerly was called The Oak.
Barrington absorbed parts of Curry Rivel, Isle Brewers, and Puckington (c. 64 a.) so that the area of the civil parish in 1886 was 1,158 a. The village street follows the 100 ft. contour and marks both the geological and the physical division of the parish.
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Later, Sir John Shales Barrington started building Barrington Hall, a substantial manor, at Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, in 1734, but it wasn’t completed until 1863. Barrington Hall still stands today and has a heritage listing in the UK.
