Barnston
St Mary, Barnston
Barnston is located in Essex
Barnston
Barnston
Location within Essex
Population947 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceTL646195
Civil parish
  • Barnston
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDUNMOW
Postcode districtCM6
Dialling code01371
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
Websitebarnstonvillage.co.uk

Barnston is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. The village is on the B1008 road, about 1+3⁄4 miles (2.8 km) south-east of Great Dunmow and 9 miles (14 km) north-north-west from the county town of Chelmsford.

The local churches are St Andrews and the Mission Evangelical Church.[2]

According to the 2001 census it had a population of 850, increasing to 947 at the census 2011[1]

Governance

Barnston is part of the electoral ward named Barnston and High Easter. The total population of this ward at the 2011 census was 1,701.[3] The first tier of local government is Barnston parish council. The parish is in the district of Uttlesford and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden.[2]

Notable residents

Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686), puritan, retired to the village and died there.[4]

Bridget Plowden (1910–2000), educational reformer, lived in later life at Martels Manor, on the edge of the village.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Uttlesford Information regarding Barnston". www.uttlesford.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2007.
  3. ↑ "Barnston and High Easter ward population 2011". Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Thomas Watson". fivesolas.com. 2004. Archived from the original on 7 March 2005 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ↑ Green, Arthur. "Plowden [née Richmond], Dame Bridget Horatia". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74720. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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