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Barton in the Beans is a hamlet in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England and forms part of the Shackerstone civil parish. There are no shops or pubs here, only a Baptist Church and a post box. It was in the 18th century an important centre for the Baptist Church and the minister at Barton was the notable clockmaker Samuel Deacon (1746-1816). The population ca. 1830 was 177. One of the earliest mentions of this place is in the Domesday Book where it is listed amongst the lands given to Hugh de Grandmesnil〔''Domesday Book: a Complete Transliteration''. London: Penguin, 2003; p. 656 ISBN 0-14-143994-7〕 by the King (the land required half a plough and there were of meadow). During the Middle Ages the land passed through many hands including several members of the family of Hastings. ==Toponymy== Barton is one of many places in England with this name: both this Barton and that in Nottinghamshire were once known as "Barton-in-Fabis" but that is no longer used for the Leicester Barton.〔Firth, J. B. (1926) ''Highways and Byways in Leicestershire''. London: Macmillan; pp. 420-422〕 In Domesday Book both are just 'Bartone' and later usage has varied (the meaning of Barton in both cases is probably 'grange' i.e. an outlying farm within an estate). :''The village of Barton in Fabis in Nottinghamshire was once known as Barton in the Beans (Faba being Latin for 'bean' abl. plur. 'fabis')'' A popular saying in the county is "Shake a Leicestershire man by the collar and you may hear the beans rattle in his belly": the author John Benjamin Firth quotes this from a contributor to ''Magna Britannia'', 1820.〔Firth, J. B. (1926) ''Highways and Byways in Leicestershire''. London: Macmillan; p. 422〕 Leicestershire was once noted for cultivating the broad bean (Vicia faba)〔Evans, Arthur Benoni (1881) ''Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs''. London: Trübner & Co.; p. 101, p. 299 "Bean-belly: an epithet of Leicestershire"〕 and in this way the bean has been perpetuated in place-names. 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「Barton in the Beans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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