BARROW upon HUMBER, a parish in the northern
division of the wapentake of YARBOROUGH, parts
of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 2 miles (E.) from.
Barton upon Humber, containing 1307 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£9. 16., and in the patronage of the Crown. The
church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. There are
places of worship for Particular Baptists and Wesleyan
Methodists. Six poor children are instructed from the
produce of some land devised by Richard Beck, in 172&
About a mile north-westward from the village is an iatrenchment,
called the Castle, supposed to have been a
British camp; and near it are several barrows. A
monastery was founded here, about the middle of the
seventh century, by Wulphere, King of Mercia.