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St John The Baptist in Barnack, Northamptonshire

Barnack Barnack is a village in the Soke of Peterborough in Northamptonshire. Unlike many of the places of the Soke, it has not been absorbed into the city's new town development but remains a fine, rural Northamptonshire village. This is a village with two great claims to fame and its influence is seen across the northeast of the county in cottages and churches and far further abroad, for Barnack is the source of Barnack rag, the distinctive orange building stone used hereabouts and in some of the great abbeys and cathedrals of the Middle Ages; Peterborough Cathedral and Ely Cathedral are built of it, as is Barnack's own church and the houses of the village. The second claim to fame is the parish church, a well preserved Anglo-Saxon church. The village is also the site of an unusual early Bronze Age burial. (Read more)