Great Barton is a village and civil parish

Civil parish

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 in the St Edmundsbury

St Edmundsbury

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 district of Suffolk

Suffolk

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, England

England

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, about three miles from Bury St Edmunds. According to Eilert Ekwall

Eilert Ekwall

Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall , known as Eilert Ekwall, was Professor of English at Lund University, Sweden, from 1909 to 1942, and one of the outstanding scholars of the English language of the first half of the 20th century...

, the meaning of the village name is barley enclosure/demesne farm or outlying grange. The Domesday Book

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

records the population of Great Barton in 1086 was 104.

All the recorded details of burials in Great Barton Churchyard from 1563 to 1992 have been transcribed from the original registers into alphabetically order, together with the cross reference to the 517 gravestones, as recorded by the Women's Institute Survey in 1979.

Great Barton is also home to radio transmission site, broadcasting the services of Heart East Anglia on 96.4 FM (1.8kw) and BBC Radio Suffolk on 104.6 FM (2kw). There is also a medium wave (AM) service on the same mast transmitting Classic Gold on 1251 KHZ at 760w.