Description
Barnby, a parish in Suffolk, near the river Waveney, 5 1/2 miles from the Carlton-Colville station on the G.E.R., and 4 E by S of Beccles. It has a post office under Beccles, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1093 ; population, 313. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Mutford, in the diocese of Norwich. The church, chiefly of the 14th century, contains ancient frescoes of the Crucifixion, the Last Judgment, and St Christopher, discovered in 1881. There is a Wesleyan chapel. The village also possesses an iron foundry and manufactory of agricultural implements.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
