BARROW-UPON-TRENT, a township and a parish in Derbyshire. The township is in Shardlow district; and lies on the river Trent, adjacent to the Grand Trunk canal, 3½ miles E by N of Willington r. station, and 6 S of Derby. Real property, £2,345. Pop., 260. Houses, 61. The parish is partly also in Burton-upon-Trent district; and includes likewise the liberty of Arleston and Sinfin, and the township of Twyford and Stenson. Post Town, Chellaston, under Derby. Acres, 5,840. Real property, £6,303. Pop., 526. Houses, 111. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Twyford, in the diocese of Lichfield Value, £105. Patron, A. Moore, Esq. The church is old but good; and there are Independent and Wesleyan chapels, and charities £30.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))