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Searching For Barton

By Barton Hargreaves 2001 - 2002

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Searching for Barton is a project devised to link up all the Barton place names in Britain, carving his own map of meaning out of the landscape. Through the name Barton, a history is unearthed, and the founding roots of the name reveals other times and histories.
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