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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Barnardiston like this:
BARNARDISTON, corruptedly Berniston, a parish in Risbridge district, Suffolk; 3¾ miles NW of Clare r. station, and 12 SSE of Newmarket. Post Town, Clare, under Sudbury. Acres, 1,100. Real property, £1,489. Pop., 280. Houses, 51. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £191. Patron, the Rev. Val. Ellis. The church is good; and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Barnardiston is now part of WEST SUFFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST SUFFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Barnardiston itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Barnardiston, in West Suffolk and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7013
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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