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.
