Map| Names of Places.| County. | Number of Miles From | +--+-----------------+----------+--------------+-----------+ 36|Barnardiston pa|Suffolk |Clare 4|Haverhill 4| 45|Barnbow to|W.R. York |Leeds 6|Tadcaster 9| 45|Barnbrough[A] pa|W.R. York |Doncaster 7|Rotherham 8| 36|Barnby pa|Suffolk |Beccles 4|Lowestoft 7| 43|Barnby to|N.R. York |Whitby 5|Guisboro 16| 30|Barnby-on-Moor to|Nottingham|East Retford 3|Bawtry 5| +--+-----------------+----------+--------------+-----------+ |Dist.| Map| Names of Places.| Number of Miles From |Lond.|Population. +--+-----------------+-------------------------+-----+-----+ 36|Barnardiston pa|Newmarket 12| 59| 206| 45|Barnbow to|Abberford 4| 190| | 45|Barnbrough[A] pa|Barnsley 10| 167| 520| 36|Barnby pa|Bungay 11| 111| 303| 43|Barnby to|Scarborough 23| 238| 224| 30|Barnby-on-Moor to|Blyth 3| 148| 206| +--+-----------------+-------------------------+-----+-----+ [A] BARNBROUGH. The church is dedicated to Saint Peter, and contains a rude painting commemorative of "a serious contest that took place between a man and a wild cat." This conflict, which every body in Barnbrough firmly believes, is said to have occurred about the middle of the fifteenth century, between Percival Cresacre, lord of the manor, and a wild cat o' mountain. He is reported to have been attacked in one of the little woods in the neighbourhood, by this furious animal, and a running fight was kept up till they reached the church porch, where the mortal combat ended in the death of both. That some such circumstance did occur, is conjectured from the crest which the family afterwards adopted, viz. a cat o' mountain, which is still to be seen on the tower of the church; and the tradition is said to be further confirmed by the figure of an animal at the foot of the oak statue of this Cresacre, and also a rubiginous stone in the pavement of the porch of the church. We have many evidences in history that cats were beasts of chase, particularly in the charter of Ranulph Piperking, granted by Edward the Confessor:-- Hart and hind, doe and bock, Fox and cat, hare and brock. and again, Four greyhounds and six raches, For hare and fox and wild cates. In the church is an ancient monument of Alicia Cresacre, wife of the above gentleman, who died in 1450, on which is carved in old text:-- Our bodys in stonys lye full still, Our saulys in wandyr at Godys will.