Barnack is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire, England. It is located in the north-west of the district, only four miles south-east from Stamford in Lincolnshire. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 851 people. Barnack's councillor is the former Deputy Mayor, Dr. David Over (Conservative).
Barnack is famous for three things: its limestone industry, its church and an unusual ...
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Barnack is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire, England. It is located in the north-west of the district, only four miles south-east from Stamford in Lincolnshire. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 851 people. Barnack's councillor is the former Deputy Mayor, Dr. David Over (Conservative).
Barnack is famous for three things: its limestone industry, its church and an unusual early Bronze Age burial.
The stone, sometimes called "Barnack rag", was a valuable building stone first exploited by the Romans. Quarrying continued in Medieval times when the Abbeys at Peterborough, Crowland, Ramsey, Sawtry and Bury St. Edmunds all used Barnack stone, and the monasteries frequently argued over the rights to it. Blocks of stone were transported on sleds to the river Welland and loaded onto barges in which it travelled down the Nene and the fenland waterways. Most famously, stone from Barnack was used to build Peterborough and...
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