BARROW, a parish in the second division, of the
hundred of EDDISBURY, county palatine of CHESTER,
5 miles (E.N.E.) from Chester, comprising the townships
of Great Barrow and Little Barrow, and containing 642
inhabitants, of which number, 393 are in the township
of Great Barrow. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's
books at £19. 6. 5., and hi the patronage of the Marquis
of Cholmondeley. The church is dedicated to St.
Bartholomew. A school for poor children is endowed
with about £6 per annum. A preceptory of the Knights
Hospitallers, founded here in the reign of Henry II.,
vas valued, at the dissolution, at £107. 3. 8.