The villages name derives from 'bere-ford' meaning 'barley ford'.
The civil parish has an area of 4.38 km2 and in the 2001 census had a population of 508 in 201 households, the population increasing to 547 at the 2011 census.[1] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk.[2]
War memorial
Barford's war memorial is a stone cross in St. Botolph's Churchyard, it holds the following names for the First World War: