Barnack, Northamptonshire

Description
Barnack, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village has a station on the G.N.R., is 1 1/2 mile from Uffington station on the M.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stamford. By a Local Government Order of 1887 the hamlet of Pilsgate was amalgamated with Barnack for rating purposes, and the parish includes the hamlet of Southorpe. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 766. Formerly there were extensive quarries of ragstone here, and the stone was furnished hence for Peterborough and Ely cathedrals, and for several other churches, but it is now thought to be exhausted. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £700 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The churcli is in very good condition. The tower is Saxon, the rest of the architecture illustrates each phase of Gothic. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and a charity estate yielding annually £81. Part of Burghley House and Park is situated in this parish. Walcot Hall, whose construction is attributed to Inigo Jones, now the residence of the Dearden family, was formerly a residence of the Earls of Gainsborough.