In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Barrow upon Humber like this:
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.
Barrow upon Humber through time
Barrow upon Humber is now part of North Lincolnshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how North Lincolnshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Barrow upon Humber itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Barrow upon Humber in North Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11510
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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