BARNARD-CASTLE, a market-town in the parish of Gainford and Darlington Ward, county of Durham, 247 miles from London, on the banks of the Tees. The corn-market, which is one of the largest in the north of England, is held on Wednesday. The town consists chiefly of one long and spacious street, the chief ornament of which is a handsome octagonal market-cross. Its principal manufactures are carpets and thread. Pop. in 1851, 4357. This
Barnaul
Barn-staple.
town derives its name from a castle founded about the year 1180 by Barnard Balol, an ancestor of the competitor with Bruce for the Scottish crown. The remains of the castle extend over a space of more than six acres.