Barrow-upon-Humber a large village and a parish In Glanford-Brigg union, Lincolnshire. The village stands 2 1/2-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.
