BARKING, a parish in the hundred of BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON,
county of SUFFOLK, If mile (S.W.) from
Needham- Market,, containing, with the chapelry of
Needham-Market, 1687 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £27. 10. 7,,
and in the patronage of the Earl of Ashburnham.
The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is also a
chapel of ease at Darmsden, in this parish. In 1650,
Francis Theobald bequeathed £30 per annum for the
endowment of a free school, in which seventeen children
are taught.