Barnby Moor is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the Bassetlaw district of

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...

, England, with a population of 257 (2001 census), increasing to the 2011 Census to 278. The village is about three miles north of

East Retford East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

Geography

The A638 passes through the village.

Bilby exclave

The hamlet of Bilby is within the parish of Barnby Moor constituting a detached portion thereof due to being separated by narrow strips of

Hodsock Hodsock is a settlement and civil parish about 4 miles from Worksop, in the Bassetlaw district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish includes the village of Langold and the country house Hodsock Priory. In 2011 the parish had a ...

and

Babworth Babworth is a village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, about 1½ miles west of Retford. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,329, including Ranby and rising to 1,687 at the 2011 C ...

. This means Barnby Moor is one of a very small number of civil parishes in England to still have a detached portion.

People

Beatrice Tomasson Beatrice Tomasson (25 April 1859 – 13 February 1947) was an English mountaineer. She climbed extensively in the Dolomites and made the first ascent of the south face of the Marmolada in 1901. Biography Early life Beatrice Tomasson was born i ...

, the mountaineer, was born here in 1859 to William and Sarah Anne Tomasson, she was their second child.

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* * Villages in Nottinghamshire Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Bassetlaw District Enclaves and exclaves {{Nottinghamshire-geo-stub