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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Barrow like this:
BARROW, a parish in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; on a stream which goes northward to the Mersey, 3½ miles S of Dunham r. station, and 5 ENE of Chester It includes the townships of Great Barrow and Little Barrow; and has fairs on 22 June and 22 Dec.: and its Post Town is Tarvin, under Chester. ...
Acres, 2,916. Real property, £4,951. Pop., 623. Houses, 118. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £263.* Patron, Lord H. Cholmondeley. The church is early English. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school built in 1865, and charities £9.
Barrow is now part of CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Barrow itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Barrow, in Cheshire West and Chester and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4977
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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