Barkway, a small town and a parish in Herts. The town stands on a rising-ground near the sources of the Quin river, 4 1/2 miles SSE of Royston station on the G.N.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Royston, was formerly a market-town; and prior to the railway times was a great thoroughfare on the northern road from London. It consists principally of one street, and most of its houses are modern. The parish includes also the hamlets of Newsells and Nuthampstead. Area of Barkway, 3251 acres; of Nuthampstead, 1960 acres; population of the civil parish, 761; of the ecclesiastical, 1174; of Nuthampstead, 207. The manor belonged to the Chesters and the Jenningses. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Reed, in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £316. The church is an ancient structure, which was restored in. 1862, and the tower rebuilt. There are a Congregational chapel, a reading room, and some small charities.
