BARROW, a parish partly in the hundred of APPLETREE,
and partly in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH,
county of DERBY, 5 miles (S.) from
Derby, comprising the chapelry of Twyford, the township
of Stenson, and the liberty of Synfin with Arieston,
and containing 617 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's
books at £5. 6. 5§., endowed with £200 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of Lord Scarsdale. The church is
dedicated to St. Wilfrid. The parish is bounded on the
south by the river Trent, and is intersected by the Trent
and Mersey canal. There is a school with an endowment
of £8 per annum, the gift of Elizabeth Saly, in
1702, for eight poor girls. A preceptory of Knights
Commanders formerly existed here.