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As one
turns off the busy A165 road and onto the lane that goes through
the village you are struck by the rural and farming feel of
Barmston and yet if you continue along the no through road you
finish up on the cliffs overlooking the North Sea and at the
Barmston Beach Caravan Park, a modern self catering holiday
village with all amenities making it a popular choice year after
year for many holiday makers.
The views both ways along
the coastline from the cliff tops here are stunning and on a clear
day you can see for miles up and down the coast and out to sea. It
is believed that two and a half miles of land has been claimed off
the headland at Barmston since the Roman times due to coastal
erosion!.
Along with the holiday village amenities there
is a Post Office, a small shop and a lively pub called The Black
Bull.
The site of The Old Manor House at the west end of
the village is now occupied by Old Hall Farm. The only parts
remaining of the original house being that of the right wing. The
house was built by the Boynton family during the reign of
Elizabeth 1. The moat which surrounded the original house can
still be seen.
All Saints Church overlooks a pond and the
stackyards of neighbouring farms. It contains fragments of a
hog-back tomb and some medieval glass. Also a 17th Century Boynton
family monument. 
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