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The Hoops, BartonThe Hoops Inn, 1 School Lane, Barton
History of the Hoops
Listed building:
Cottage, now public house. c.1700. Timber-framed, roughcast rendered and cement tiled.
The Hoops, Barton
Enid Porter writes in Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore, p142:
Members of the Barton Women’s Institute recalled in 1956 that their feast was held on May 15th at the Hoop Inn, where swings were set up and there was a dance in the evening for which the charge was one shilling or twopence for ‘once round the floor.’ Barton Feast was , as in several other villages in the county, an occasion for all the houses to be freshly lime-washed.
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