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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BARROW-UPON-HUMBER, a village and a parish in Glanford-Brigg district, Lincoln. The village stands 2½ miles E of Barton; and has a post office‡ under Ulceby. 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 railway, with a regular station at New Holland, and a roadside one at Barrow-Haven. Acres, 5,990; of which 1,370 are water. Real property, £10,107. Pop., 2,443. Houses, 543. The property is much sub-divided. 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. Value, £260. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is very good. An endowment for an afternoon preacher yields £160 a year; and charities yield £41. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Barrow upon Humber AP/CP Glanford Brigg RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Barrow upon Humber |
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