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In 1965 the Soke of Peterborough merged with neighbouring Huntingdonshire to the south, creating the county of "Huntingdon and Peterborough". This authority was short-lived, being absorbed into Cambridgeshire in 1974. In 1996 the Peterborough District (including the parish of Barnack) became a unitary authority indepedendent of Cambridgeshire administration, but remaining nominally part of the county. To further confuse the question of in which county Barnack lies, the postal address is "Barnack, Stamford, Lincolnshire", as Stamford in Lincolnshire is nearest post town, but Barnack itself has never been part of Lincolnshire.
Barnack is a village and civil parish, now in the Peterborough District unitary authority of the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Barnack is in the northwest of the unitary authority, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southeast of Stamford, Lincolnshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Pilsgate about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Barnack. Both Barnack and Pilsgate are on the B1443 road. The 2011 UK census recorded a parish population of 931. Barnack is historically part of the Soke of Peterborough, which was associated with Northamptonshire but had its own County Council from 1888 until 1965. From 1894 until 1965 there was a Barnack Rural District that was a subdivision of the Soke, and which formed part of Huntingdon and Peterborough until 1974. Barnack is notable for its former limestone industry, its Anglo-Saxon parish church and an unusual early Bronze Age burial. [edit] PilsgatePilsgate is a hamlet in Northamptonshire. Historically it was part of the parish of Barnack, but in 1866 it became a civil parish in its own right, having already been treated as a separate parish for the purposes of the 1851 and 1861 censuses. However, Pilsgate's independence was short-lived, with the civil parish abolished in 1887 and its territory absorbed back into Barnack parish, where it remains today. There was no church at Pilsgate and baptisms, marriages and burials of Pilsgate residents continued to be at St John the Baptist church in Barnack. (References to Pilsgate are redirected to Barnack.) [edit] SouthorpeSouthorpe is a small village and civil parish. Prior to 1866 it was a hamlet in the parish of Barnack. There is no church at Southorpe, and for ecclesiastical purposes it remains part of Barnack, therefore baptisms, marriages and burials relating to Southorpe residents will all be found in the Barnack registers. [edit] Notable People
Charles Kingsley, author of The Water Babies, spent his childhood at the Rectory. His brother Henry Kingsley was born there in 1830. They were the sons of the Rev. Charles Kingsley the elder and Mary, née Lucas. The Rectory was largely rebuilt later in the 19th century and is now called Kingsley House. The painter Wilfrid Wood (1888–1976) lived in a 17th-century thatched cottage, Littlefield on Station Road, Barnack from 1938. The village hall is now named after him.[1] [edit] Research Tips
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