- Barrow upon Humber
Barrow upon Humber is a village and
civil parish inNorth Lincolnshire ,England .Barrow contains the site of a late Anglo-Saxon monastery, which has been fully excavated. The location is now built-over, but is marked by a plaque in the village.
According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,745. The village is located near the
Humber , about three miles east ofBarton-upon-Humber . The small port ofBarrow Haven , 1.5 miles north, on the railway line fromCleethorpes andGrimsby toBarton handles timber fromLatvia andEstonia .=People associated with Barrow-on-Humber=
* St Chad was given land to found amonastery at Barrow by the king ofMercia .
*Chad Varah 's father was vicar of Barrow.
* Barrow was the birthplace ofJohn Sergeant Catholic Philosopher (1623-1707).
* Barrow upon Humber was the home ofJohn Harrison , the pioneer of a failsafe way of establishinglongitude at sea. A copy of Harrison's 1736 clock, H1, made by Larcum Kendall, travelled withCaptain Cook on his Pacific voyages. Harrison was the subject of a 2000 film "Longitude" starringMichael Gambon . (The premise of the discovery of Harrison's clock was used in the plot of several episodes of theBBC situation-comedy "Only Fools and Horses " in which the main characters, the "Trotter brothers" became overnight millionaires following theauction of such an item).
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