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Barley is a village and civil parish in the district of North Hertfordshire, England. According to the 2001 census, it has a population of 659.〔 The place-name refers to a lea or meadow and not to the grain-producing plant. Coincidentally to the southwest lies the village of Reed. The Prime Meridian passes to the west of Barley. Located on the Royston to Saffron Walden road, as well as the medieval London to Cambridge road, Barley has a church with a 12th-century Norman tower, and dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Village )〕 The church was rebuilt in 1872 using designs by William Butterfield retaining only the tower and the fourth aisle. ==History== The area has been home to residents for perhaps 3000 years; evidence has been found of Bronze Age settlers in the hills around Royston and Iron Age farmers to the north of the village in 100 BC, and Romans again occupied the parish.〔 Listed in the Domesday Book as ''Berlei'', the name Barley derived not from the local crop but from ''Beora's Ley'', the woodland clearing of a Saxon Lord.〔 The village also includes a 17th-century lock-up〔 and an early Tudor town house with a large timbered upper room, which was mentioned by Daniel Defoe in a travel book in 1726. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barley, Hertfordshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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