Settled: 1637 â Incorporated: 1638 Zip Code(s): 02601 â Area Code(s): 508 / 774 Official website: http://town. ... Barnstable is also the name of one of the villages within the city of Barnstable, Massachusetts. ...
See also
Barnstaple, a town in Devon, England, commonly mis-spelt as -ble instead of -ple.
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Barnstable County consists of the 15 coastal towns located on the peninsula known as Cape Cod.
Bordered on the north by Cape Cod Bay, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and to the south by Nantucket Sound, it is the easternmost point of land in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
This changed in Barnstable County with the passage of the Barnstable County Home Rule Charter, signed into legislation in July of 1988, which guaranteed certain rights of home rule for the county and established a legislative body with the power to enact ordinances.