BARROW-upon-SOAR, a parish partly in the eastern,
but chiefly in the western, division of the hundred of
GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 2 miles (W.) from Mountsorrel,
comprising the chapelries of Mountsorrel, Quorndon,
and Woodhouse, and containing 5560 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books
at £15. 2. 8., and in the patronage of the Master and
Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. The church
is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. There is a place of
worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Barrow is a large
and pleasant village, situated near the river Soar. For
many centuries it has been noted for a very fine kind
of lime, which is made from a hard blue stone obtained
in the vicinity; a considerable quantity, is exported
to Holland, and elsewhere. The Loughborough
canal passes through the parish. The free grammar
school is endowed with land producing £55 per annum,
bequeathed by the Rev. Humphrey Perkins, in 1717.
A school for six poor children has a small endowment,
the produce of various benefactions. An almshouse for
six poor widows, or aged bachelors, was founded in
1686, by the Rev. Humphrey Babington, who endowed
it with an estate, now producing £200 per annum;
he also left a fund for other charitable purposes. Dr.
William Beveridge, the learned bishop of St. Asaph,
was born here, in 1638; he bequeathed a rent-charge
of £2 for eight poor housekeepers in this parish.