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All Saints church, Barnardiston |
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Barnardiston
Barnardiston shown within Suffolk |
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| Population | 206 (2001 census) |
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| OS grid reference | TL710480 |
| 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 ( /bɑrnərˈdɪstən/ bar-nər-dis-tən)[1] is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England. The village is located about four miles north-east of Haverhill off the A143.
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]
Barnardiston is also the location of one of only 32 scheduled ancient monuments in Suffolk, the moats of a medieval rectory.[3]
All Saints church is close by, near Kedington.
Barnardiston Hall boarding school, a mile away from the village, used to be the old village hall and a farm buildings. It has 250 pupils.
Tour of Britain 2010 Stage 7 went close to the village.