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St Margaret of Antioch, Barley, Hertfordshire

Barley, Hertfordshire

Barley is a village in northern Hertfordshire, standing on the Royston to Saffron Walden road, as well as the mediæval London to Cambridge road. The Greenwich Meridian passes to the west of Barley.

The name of the village is recorded as Berlei in the Domesday Book. The parish church, St Margaret of Antioch, has a 12th-century Norman tower, but the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1872. (Read more)