Barrow upon Humber, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Barrow-upon-Humber, a large village and a parish in Glanford-Brigg union, Lincolnshire. The village stands 2¼ miles E of Barton, and has a post and telegraph office under Hull. The parish includes also New Holland; lies on the Humber, nearly opposite Hull; has a ferry there at Barrow-Haven to Hull, and is traversed along the coast by the Barton branch of the M.S. & L.R., with a station at New Holland and a road-side one at Barrow Haven. Acreage, 5050 of land and 181 of water and foreshore; population, 2695. An ancient monastery, founded by Wulpher, king of Mercia, stood at a place called Al Barwe. An extensive entrenchment, called the Castle, and supposed to have been an ancient British camp, exists about a mile NW of the village. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £121 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles. There is a valuable endowment for a Sunday afternoon lectureship, and there are charities worth £14 a year. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. Barrow Hall is a country residence standing in a park of 150 acres.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Barrow-upon-Humber Holy Trinity | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
Wapentake | Yarborough |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Barrow On Humber:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1560-1911 | 1754-1814 | 1560-1911 | 1576-1911 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Barrow upon Humber from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barrow-Upon-Humber (Holy Trinity))
Maps
Online maps of Barrow upon Humber are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: