Barrow, Cheshire
Historical Description
Barrow, a parish in Cheshire, on the river Gowy, 2 miles NW of Tarvin, and 5 ENE of Chester. It includes the townships of Great Barrow and Little Barrow. There is a station at Little Barrow on the Cheshire Lines railway, and a post and telegraph office at Great Barrow, under Chester; money order office, Tarvin. Acreage, 3033; population, 734. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Cholmondeley. The church is an Early English edifice of red sandstone with later additions. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cheshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Barrow St. Bartholomew | |
Hundred | Eddisbury | |
Poor Law union | Great Boughton | |
Registration district | Great Boughton | 1837 - 1869 |
Registration district | Chester | 1870 - 1937 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Barrow from 1837 to 1869 you should search for the Great Boughton Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Barrow from 1870 to 1937 you should search for the Chester Registration District.
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 (St. Bartholomew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire 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 Cheshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.