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I came across this with a couple of my great-grandparents.

Both were baptised into the Methodist Church as infants.

But in their teens they decided to join the Anglican congregation in their parish - although the boy had to wait until he was 21 because his father had had a falling out with the Church of England previously.

The parish register shows each as "received into Church". This was done (in capitals) as a footnote to the page; they were not given lines in the regular chronological list of baptisms.

I suspect the C of E wouldn't re-baptise someone who had already been baptised, even in a different denomination, so some kind of official reception into the church was the only way of formalising their membership.

They were married in the parish church they had joined and were together for over 60 years.

I'm wondering whether Barchild could have been the father's surname, the mother not knowing his given name (if perhaps she had been seduced by her employer). That surname is not unknown.
Alternatively could there be a connection with the heraldic bar sinister which I believe was the indication of illegitimacy.
It would be instructive to look elsewhere in the register to see how other illegitimate births are recorded. You don't usually have to look far to find one!

Obviously a part of the farmed land where yields were 50% or more above normal, on the figures given.

I have to say my first reading was "Down the fenn". Is that possible terminology in the area to which this document relates?

Looking at the witnesses, one sees that the two bridegrooms were witnesses for each other's ceremony. One can see how there might have been some confusion about who was meant to sign which register entry - and where.