BARNSTON, a parish in the hundred of DUNMOW,
county of ESSEX, 2: miles (S. E.) from Great Dunmow,
containing 218 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London,
rated in the king's books at £13, and in the patronage
of J. Toke, Esq. The steeple of the church was destroyed
by lightning in 1665.