Barton's village shop complex includes a shoe shop, hair and beauty salon, and Conkers Stores, a traditional village shop and Post Office, and the area's only petrol station, which is attached to a car franchise and has a fairly extensive shop.[citation needed] There are two public houses in the village: The Hoops, on New Road; and the White Horse Inn, on the High Street. Barton is also home to a country shopping complex, Burwash Manor Barns, housing among other businesses a butcher, organic grocer, tea rooms, toy shop, wine merchant, and Persian rug outlet. The complex attracts visitors from across Cambridgeshire.[citation needed] Also in Barton is the headquarters of The Countryside Restoration Trust, which has been there since the charity's establishment in 1993.[5]
Employment within the village is very limited. Most residents commute to work at locations across southern Cambridgeshire and in London.[citation needed] The area is starting to attract commuters, who park their cars and then cycle to work. There are plans for some kind of park and ride/cycle on the outskirts of Barton.[citation needed]
Between the High Street and A603 Wimpole Road lies the village's recreation ground, with a full size football pitch, tennis courts, half pipe, children's play area, pavilion, bowls club, car park, dog walks, and rough ground for general recreation. A village hall neighbours the school.
The Barton Road Rifle Range is 200 yards (180 m) north of the village, where regular military training takes place.
The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory is just south of the village. The antenna dishes of its Ryle Telescope are positioned along 5 kilometres (3 mi) of the disused Cambridge to Oxford railway line and can be seen from most places in the village. The signals from several dishes are combined to give the resolution of a much larger single dish.
Religion
Barton has two churches, one Church of England and one Baptist, both on Church Lane. There are some pictures and a description of the mediaeval St Peter's at the Cambridgeshire Churches website.[6]
The Barton Woodland Burial Ground just outside the village provides natural burials.[7][8]
It is divided into two sections, Barton North and South Glebes, each glebe further sub-divided
into individually-named glades like Oak, Ash and Willow.
