Barking 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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

Mid Suffolk Mid Suffolk is a local government district in Suffolk, England. The district is primarily a rural area, containing just three towns, being Stowmarket, Needham Market and Eye. Its council was based in Needham Market until 2017 when it moved to sha ...

district of the

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Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

. It is west of

Needham Market Needham Market is a small town in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, set in the Gipping Valley. Nearby villages include Barking, Suffolk, Barking, Darmsden, Badley and Creeting St Mary. The town is located just east of the A14 road ( ...

on the B1078 road. The village is linear along the road with its centre being around the area known as Barking Tye and away from the large village church of St Mary.St Mary, Barking
Suffolk churches website. Retrieved 2013-01-25. There are six bells that hang the church of St Mary with the largest weighing 11 cwt - 1 qr - 7 lb.Dove's Guide
Retrieved 2013-04-14. All 6 bells were recast and rehung in 1911 by Alfred Bowell. Barking Woods is a

Site of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain, or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland, is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle ...

made up of a number of wooded areas mainly to the south of the village.Barking Woods map
, Natural England. Retrieved 2013-01-25. These are ancient woodlands documented since the 13th century and including many coppiced and pollarded

oak An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' of the beech family. They have spirally arranged leaves, often with lobed edges, and a nut called an acorn, borne within a cup. The genus is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisp ...

and ash trees covering a total of .Barking Woods
, SSSI citation, Natural England. Retrieved 2013-01-25. One of the sites has active

badger Badgers are medium-sized short-legged omnivores in the superfamily Musteloidea. Badgers are a polyphyletic rather than a natural taxonomic grouping, being united by their squat bodies and adaptions for fossorial activity rather than by the ...

setts. Suffolk Wildlife Trust owns part of the largest of the wooded areas, Bonny Wood, which it operates as a nature reserve of , maintaining the coppiced woodland as a series of habitats.Bonny Wood
, Suffolk Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 2013-01-25. Barking is listed as a settlement with 63 households in the 1086

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

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* Villages in Suffolk Mid Suffolk District Civil parishes in Suffolk {{Suffolk-geo-stub