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2 Real Ale pubs
2 closed pubs
1 putative ex pub



Last updated: July 17th 2010

Known as "Little Barton" in Saxon times and recorded in Domesday variously as "Bartona" and "Bertunna". John Speed's 1610 map shows it as "Berton".

Excavations in gravel pits around Warren Hill have unearthed over 1000 tools; mainly Palaeolithic, some Neolithic.

Now a large residential village. A mill and wharf were once located on river Lark with a daily passenger ferry to Norwich. Sir Alexander Fleming was once a parishioner of the village.

The village's Scarecrow Festival is held every other year and draws in large crowds of visitors. It features in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of scarecrows made at one time. A scarecrow even features on the village sign.


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estimated population (2007) of Barton Mills: 870

Acknowledgements

Some historical information from English Heritage's National Monuments Record.

Local licensing authority for Barton Mills is Forest Heath

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