Barrowby a parish, with three hamlets, in Lincolnshire, on the Grantham and Nottingham railway, 1 1/2 mile W of Grantham, under which it has a post and telegraph office. Acreage, 4440; population, 817. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £1025 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church is an ancient and interesting edifice of stone of the Early English Decorated period. There are Free Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
