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Barnes (/ bɑːrnz /) is a district in South West London, England, part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It takes up the extreme north-east of the borough, and as such is the closest part of the borough to central London. It is centred 5.8 miles (9.3 km) west south-west of Charing Cross in a bend of the River Thames.
BARNES, a parish in Richmond district, Surrey; on the Richmond railway and the river Thames, 7 miles WSW of Waterloo Bridge station, London. It has a station on the railway; and it contains the village of Barnes and the hamlet of Barnes-Elms or Barn-Elms, both of which have post offices under Mortlake, London, S. ...
Barnes is located in the county of Greater London, London, six miles west of the city of City of Westminster, 14 miles south-east of the major town of Watford, and six miles south-west of London. Barnes lies six miles north-east of the Surrey border, and was historically in the county of Surrey.
Parish History. A History of the County of Surrey 1912. The parish of Barnes contains 1,027 acres. It lies on the Thames, inside the curve which the river makes, first north and then south, opposite Hammersmith, and is bounded by it on three sides. The towing-path round the bend is in Barnes parish.
Barnes was a local government district in north west Surrey from 1894 to 1965, when its former area was absorbed into the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
Jan 6, 2021 · Barnes played a role in everything from the invention of football to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Carla Passino takes a closer look. Until an army of 19th-century engineers descended on Barnes to build bridges and railways, this was a world apart, a rural idyll preserved intact by the Thames that bounds it on three sides.
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Sep 16, 2024 · Guide to Barnes, Surrey ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
