Barnston is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. The village is on the B1008 road, about 1+3/4 mi south-east of Great Dunmow and 9 mi north-north-west from the county town of Chelmsford. The local churches are St Andrews and the Mission Evangelical Church. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 850, increasing to 947 at the census 2011

Governance

Barnston is part of the electoral ward named Barnston and High Easter. The total population of this ward at the 2011 census was 1,701. The first tier of local government is Barnston parish council. The parish is in the district of Uttlesford and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden.

Notable residents

Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686), puritan, retired to the village and died there. Bridget Plowden (1910–2000), educational reformer, lived in later life at Martels Manor, on the edge of the village.