Description
Barton-Mills or Little Barton, a village and a parish in Suffolk, adjacent to the river Lark, 1 mile SSE of Mildenhall, and 4 SE from Kennet station on the G.E.R., with a post office under Mildenhall (S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1888; population, 407. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £300 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of stone, and contains an ancient font and a carved oak pulpit. There is also a Baptist chapel, erected in 1844. There are corn mills in this village, worked by steam and water, and some good villa residences.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
