Towns & Villages in Herts

Barkway

Adjacent Parishes:
Anstey, Barley, Buckland, Chrishall (Essex), Little Chishall (Essex), Meesden, Melbourne (Cambridgeshire), Reed, Royston, Wyddial

It is in Edwinstree Hundred

It is in the Royston  Union

Cottages in Barkway
From "A Pilgrimage in Hertfordshire"

BARKWAY is a parish and village in Edwinstree Hundred, 4 miles south-by-east from Roysston, and 4 miles north-east of Buntingford, on the Cambridge road. The area is 5,080 acres, and the population in 1841, 1,291. The assessment to the Property Tax in 1815 was £3,871, and in 1842, £5,150. A fair is holden on the 20th July. The church is dedicated to St Mary Magdalen, and is handsome, with fragments of old stained glass in the windows, forming part of a series representing the creation. The living is a vicarage, valies P.R. £512 per annum, in the incumbency of the Rev Robert Samuel Battiescombe. Here is an Independent chapel and a National school, erected for the education of the children of Barkway, Nuthampstead, Newsells Bury and Reed.

NUTHAMPSTEAD is a hamlet of Barkway, 1½ miles south-east, with a population of 289, assessed at £2,041.

NEWSELLS BURY, belonging to the Rev Leveson Vernon Harcourt and the Hon. Caroline Mary, his wife, is a hamlet of Barkway, three-quarters of a mile north, with a population of 155. COCKEN HATCH is the seat of Lady Louisa Clinton, a quarter mile to the east.

NEWSELLS BURY [repeated in original] is a scattered hamlet, 1 mile south-west, with a population of 155.

From Post Office Directory for Hertfordshire, 1850

  
1667 token of John Kent, Grocer, in Barkway, Herts.
recently offered for sale on eBay

Web Site: Barkway Organ - includes information on the parish church.

Barkway Church
Published by Robert H Clark, posted 1909 (copy known posted 1906)

Barkway was on the main road from London to Cambridge - see Ogilby's Strip Map to Kings Lynn (Puckeridge to Barley)

High Street, Barkway circa 1910?

See also Newsells and  Cockenach, Barkway, 18th & 19th century 

Nuthampstead - Robert H Clarks's Series (circa 1905)

Nuthampstead - Robert H Clarks's Series (circa 1905)

Tom Doig (tomdoig @t aol.com)  has information relevant to HOY, Barkway, 19th century - and much more on other people who lived in Barkway and Reed.

See Cockenach, Barkway, 18th & 19th century

Page updated December 2009