Shrunken Post Medieval Settlement at Barton

Description of this historic site

The possible site of a shrunken village of Post Medieval date. The site is located at Barton.

Notes about this historic site

1 ‘Though I have not met with any direct mention of this place before E I time, yet do I conclude it to have been a village long before… There are here eight farms, and seventeen cottages.’
2 Barton has only about sixteen buildings, at least nine of which are pre-C18.
3The approximate limit of Barton from the 1834 1 inch to 1 mile map.

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