BARROW, a parish within the liberties of the borough
of WENLOCK, county of SALOP, 3 miles (E. by S.)
from Much Wenlock, containing 462 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Salop,
and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Much
Wenlock. The church is dedicated to St, Giles. Here
is a free school for twenty boys, to which £10 per
annum was bequeathed, in 1631, by John Slaney, who
also founded and endowed an almshouse for six poor
men or women.