Barsham (Suffolk)

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Barsham Village Sign

Barsham is a village and at the same time a church ( Parish ) in the UK . It is located in the East Suffolk district in the northeast of the English county of Suffolk .

geography

View from the church tower towards Beccles

Barsham is south of the Waveney River . It not only forms the northern boundary of the parish, but also that of Suffolk. Neighboring parishes, starting to the east and going clockwise, are Beccles , Ringsfield , St Andrew, Ilketshall , Shipmeadow , Geldeston and Gillinghall . The latter two are in the county of Norfolk .

The community is located in rural areas between the small towns of Bungay , about six kilometers to the west, and the immediately adjacent Beccles to the east. Barsham historically formed a scattered settlement , which was grouped in a wider area around the parish church located near a road junction. In this area, a few houses were added later, which Barsham also developed into a small town. Around 800 meters to the south-east , around a dozen more residential buildings were built along a path to a homestead, the City Farm . This spatially separated hamlet is called The City . In addition to the two main settlement areas, the community also includes several individual locations .

The larger southern part of the district is mainly used for arable farming, the smaller northern part due to the higher humidity of the soil due to the proximity of the river and occasional flooding as meadow terrain. In this area, the Barsham Marshes , there are also a number of drainage ditches that serve to improve the usability. The population was at the time of the 2011 census at 215, in 2017 at an estimated 231. The district area is about 7.3  km² , the GSS code of the community is E04009484.

history

The parish church of Holy Trinity

The name is derived from a resident named Bar , possibly a nickname meaning boar ( English boar ). In the Domesday Book , written in the late 11th century , Barsham is mentioned as being composed of three different places of residence .

In Barsham is an independent congregation of the Church of England . Its Holy Trinity Church is one of the churches with a round tower , its lowest part was built no later than the 11th century.

From 1833 lessons were offered in a Sunday school in Barsham . A state primary school was built in 1874, and a preschool was added in 1912 . At the beginning of the 1801 ten-year census , Barsham had 162 people. The population remained in the low three-digit range with a maximum of 251 counted residents in 1901.

Memorial plaque to the plane crash

On April 22, 1944 in Barsham collapsed bomber type B-24 of the United States Air Force from. The machine was on its return flight from Hamm in Westphalia , where it had dropped its bomb load. Seven of the ten crew members were killed and a plaque commemorates the event.

In the 1960s, a number of people who wanted to escape the hustle and bustle of the British capital moved from London to the rural areas of Norfolk and Suffolk. They networked with each other and in 1971 the idea of organizing a medieval market came up. This was implemented in Barsham at the Roos Hall homestead in 1972 , followed by four more by 1976, now at the old rectory. Since the name of the village had established itself by then, a Bungay May Fair was held at the nearby Mettingham Castle in 1976 and 1977 , with horses being the focus. From these beginnings a series of events developed over a decade, which included both counties and which became known under the names East Anglian Fairs , later Albion Fairs . It ended where it began in 1986 at Roos Hall with the Great Desert Fair .

Politics and administration

The Village Hall

In the system of traditional counties in England , the village within Suffolk belonged to the Wangford Hundred, between 1894 and 1934 to the Rural District Wangford and then to the Rural District Wainford. With the entry into force of the Local Government Act 1972 in April 1974 this went on in the Waveney district . As a result of Waveney's merger with Suffolk Coastal , Barsham has been in the East Suffolk district since April 2019 .

Barsham forms an administrative community with Shipmeadow in the form of a combined parish council with a total of four members. Its seat, the Village Hall , is in Barsham.

traffic

Barsham lies on both sides of the country road that runs from Homersfield to Beccles via Bungay. Originally classified as A road , it was downgraded in the 1980s and has been designated B1062 ever since. Regular public transport is covered by a bus route that runs from Bungay to Beccles and on to Great Yarmouth .

Buildings

The old parsonage at Barsham

A total of ten buildings and facilities in the municipality are considered by Historic England to be of cultural and historical importance. Of these, the Holy Trinity Church is classified as Listed Building in Category I, the Country House Ashmans Hall in Category II * and seven others, including the old rectory, in Category II. In addition, there is the moat around Barsham Hall , which is designated as a Scheduled Monument along with the remains of a nearby building .

people

  • Laurence Echard , born in Barsham around 1670, died in 1730; Clergyman and historian
  • Catherine Suckling, born in Barsham in 1725, died in 1767, mother of Horatio Nelson
  • Alfred Inigo Suckling , born 1796, died 1856; Clergyman, historian and country scholar , rector of Barsham from 1839 until his death

literature

  • William White: Barsham . In: History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Suffolk, and the Towns Near Its Borders , Sheffield 1844, pp. 411f. (English)
  • Alfred Suckling: Barsham . In: The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: Volume 1 , Ipswich 1846, pp. 35–46 (English)
  • Section on Barsham in: Wendy Goult: A Survey of Suffolk Parish History , 1990, ISBN 0860551393 . Available online from the County Council's Suffolk Heritage Explorer, PDF file, 238 kB

Web links

Commons : Barsham, Suffolk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population data on the county administration's data server, accessed May 6, 2019. (English)
  2. ↑ Entry on Barsham at Opendomesday.org, accessed on May 1, 2019. (English)
  3. ↑ Holy Trinity Church Barsham with Shipmeadow on the Church of England website, accessed May 3, 2019.
  4. ^ Holy Trinity Church. Entry in the Historic England Listed Property Database, accessed May 1, 2019. (English)
  5. ↑ History and list of events on the Fairs website, accessed on May 6, 2019.
  6. ^ Documentary film on the 1976 market in the East Anglian Film Archive of the University of East Anglia , accessed on May 6, 2019.
  7. ↑ Wangford Hundred at Vision of Britain, accessed April 28, 2019.
  8. ↑ Number 1 in: The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972, Schedule 1, Part 35 on the British Government's Law Server, accessed on April 28, 2019. (English)
  9. ↑ A145 , A1116 and B1062 on the Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts (SABER) website , accessed April 28, 2019. (English)
  10. ↑ query Barsham on the public transport portal of the county administration, carried out (English) on April 28, 2019
  11. ↑ Barsham Parish database query on Historic England's website, conducted on April 28, 2019. (English)
  12. ↑ Entry Laurence Echard in the Dictionary of National Biography (1885/1900) at Wikisource , accessed on April 2, 2019 (English)
  13. ↑ Entry Horatio Nelson in the Dictionary of National Biography (1885/1900) at Wikisource, accessed on April 2, 2019 (English)
  14. ^ Entry on the rectory in the Historic England Listed Property Database, accessed April 2, 2019
  15. ^ Entry Alfred Inigo Suckling in the Dictionary of National Biography (1885/1900) at Wikisource, accessed April 2, 2019 (English)

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '  N , 1 ° 32'  E