Barrow, Suffolk

Historical Description

Barrow, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 1½ mile S of Higham railway station on the G.E.R., and 6 W of Bury-St-Edmunds. It has a post and telegraph office under Bury-St-Edmunds. Acreage, 2677; population, 952. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £475 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Cambridge. The church, which is an ancient building of flint and stone, in the Early English style, has some interesting tombs and monuments. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels, an endowed infant school, and some small charities. Francis, the translator of Horace, was rector of Barrow.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Barrow from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barrow (All Saints))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Barrow 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 Suffolk papers online:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press