Barnstone is an English village in the

Rushcliffe Rushcliffe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the Local Authority at the 2011 Census was 111,129. Its councilRushcliffe Borough Council 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 ...

, forming part of Langar cum Barnstone parish. It lies on the border with Leicestershire. The nearest retail stores, schools and railway station are in Bingham (4.5 miles, 7 km). The spelling in the 19th century was usually "Barnston". The

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of St Mary's belongs to the Wiverton group, but is not currently in use.

Heritage

The

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of 1086 states that Barnstone contained 26 households. The Lord at Barnstone and at Langar at the time was

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. In about 1870–1872, Barnstone had a population of 169. The Manor House in Main Road is a

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originating from the 17th century, with 18th and 19th-century additions. So is The Rookery, a large mid-18th-century house now subdivided, and the late 18th-century Roadside Farmhouse and Barn.

Governance

Barnstone forms part of Langar and Barnstone parish in the Borough of

Rushcliffe Rushcliffe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the Local Authority at the 2011 Census was 111,129. Its councilRushcliffe Borough Council Ruth Edwards Ruth Rosamond Edwards (née Davis, 11 May 1984) is a British politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rushcliffe in the 2019 general election. A member of the Conservative Party, she worked in cybersecurity policy prior ...

Cement works

There is a

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cement works based in Barnstone. The first lime kiln was erected in 1864. Cement manufacture began on the site in 1885, when the first

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was installed. Sixteen bottle kilns followed in 1886. Barnstone later specialised in manufacturing cements for the mining industry. The premises were later owned by Lafarge. Manufacture of cement clinker ceased in May 2006, leaving Barnstone as a specialist cement-grinding and blending operation.150th anniversar
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/ref> In 2013, the company merged with Tarmac to become Lafarge Tarmac Ltd.

Transport

Barnstone is served by Centrebus Route 24 between Bingham and

Melton Mowbray Melton Mowbray () is a town in Leicestershire, England, north-east of Leicester, and south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, known below Melton as the Wreake. The town had a population 27,670 in 2019. The town is sometimes promo ...

, running Monday to Saturday three times a day. Barnstone railway station served the

Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway The Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway was a British railway line, almost entirely within Leicestershire. Authorised by the same Act of Parliament, the Great Northern Railway Leicester Branch was built, branching from the ...

and its successors between Melton Mowbray and

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, from 1879 to 1953. Goods traffic to the limestone sidings continued until 1962.

Amenities

Bingham & District ABC (Amateur Boxing Club) meets in Barnstone. There is also a bowling green, which includes a skate park, and a village hall. Barnstone Railway Cutting is an area of

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classed as a site of special scientific interest by

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.Designated Site
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References

External links

* * *''For Pete's Sake. The

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Story'' by Wendy Dickinson and Stafford Hildred (Kibworth Beauchamp: Matador, 2010
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includes a description of Taylor's time as a wartime evacuee in Barnstone. *Barnstone received a sizeable group of child evacuees from

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in 1940. There are photographs of several of them here
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