BARROW, a parish, with a village, in Thingoe district, Suffolk; 1 ½ mile S of Higham r. station, and 6 W of Bury-St.-Edmunds. It has a post office under Bury St.-Edmunds, and a fair on 1 May. Acres, 2,665. Real property, £4,598. Pop., 1,030. Houses, 216. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £690.* Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge. The church was restored in 1852. There is an Independent chapel. A school has an endowed income of £20, and other charities £60. Francis, the translator of Horace, was rector.

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