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Barningham
Barningham
	Barningham
	Barningham Location within County Durham
Population	241 (Including Scargill.2011)
OS grid reference	NZ08521045
Unitary authority	County Durham;
Ceremonial county	County Durham;
Region	North East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Richmond
Postcode district	DL11
Police	Durham
Fire	County Durham and Darlington
Ambulance	North East
UK Parliament	Bishop Auckland;
	List of places UK England County Durham 54°29′23″N 1°52′10″W / 54.48959°N 1.86942°W

Barningham is a village in County Durham, in the Pennines of England.

History

Barningham is listed in the Domesday Book under the Gilling Wapentake (later Gilling West and part of the Honour of Richmond) of Yorkshire as a property owned in 1066 by an Anglo-Saxon lord, Thor, before the Norman conquest; by 1086, the ownership had transferred to Enisant Musard, with Count Alan of Brittany as a tenant.^[2]

The village, along with the wider and former Startforth Rural District, was formerly governed under the North Riding and was transferred to County Durham's governance in 1974.

Amenities

Barningham is a tranquil conservation village of around 60 houses. It has a large village green, a church, a stately home occupied by a local landowning baronet, a village hall used by local interest groups and a recently restored pub. It is on the edge of moors stretching westwards to Cumbria and is a good base for walking the local dales and hills. The village has an enthusiastic local history society which runs a website and offers assistance to anyone trying to trace ancestors from the area.^[3]

Notable buildings

Barningham Park has been the home of the Milbank family since 1690. It is a Grade II* listed country house dating from the 15th century^[4] set in a 7000-acre estate.^[5]

The Milbank Arms is a Grade II listed public house built in the early 19th century and extensively rebuilt in 2019. ^[6] It was formerly on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.^[7]