Village Trail

BARROW BARROW CASTLES The grassy mounds and ditches at VILLAGE TRAIL Barrow Haven are all that remain of a castle built by the Counts of Aumale, Lords of Holderness, to control the BARROW UPON HUMBER has a superb range of river crossing between their estates in commercial, public and domestic buildings. The High BARROW Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The Street is one of the finest in North Lincolnshire with HAVEN earthworks represent a low ‘motte’ or many examples from the Georgian and early Victorian mound which would have carried a RESERVE period. The streets radiating from the Market Place at one Next to the inlet is one timber keep, and three large ‘baileys’ of the many Nature or yards containing dwellings, stables end, and from the Church at the other, also contain many Reserves along this stretch and workshops, all protected by buildings, grand and small, of architectural interest. of the Humber managed by palisaded ramparts and moats fed by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. the tidal haven. DOWN HALL stands on the site of one of Barrow’s medieval manors. Built in 1877 by JW Beeton, a willow merchant from Hull, it served as both a grand house and a factory for manufacturing woven BARROW willow baskets, chairs and prams. Beeton paid his workers in octagonal HAVEN tokens redeemable at his own village shop and kept watch on them When King Henry VIII and cutting the osiers from a viewing area on the roof. The Hall was built Catherine Howard visited the area by John Sleight of Barrow, who in 1541 they would have landed at the Haven and progressed claimed the house was based on the with their retinue through Barrow to Thornton Abbey. calendar using 7, 24, 12, 52 & even 365 for quantities and measurementsF of doors, windows and other fittings. BARROW has been a Christian site since the 7th century when St Chad established a monastery here on land given by King Wulfhere of Mercia. It was destroyed by Danish raiders in the 9th century, but the ancient village street name St Chad suggests it may have been in this area. The remains of a later Saxon church and graveyard excavated there in the 1970s were probably associated with an early manor house, O the forerunner to Down Hall. HOLY TRINITY CHURCH has been altered and added to over the centuries. The late Norman nave with its impressive arcades dates from the 12-13th centuries, the chancel and the tower from the 13th-14th centuries and the north aisle and other sections from 19th century restorations. Inside, the font is medieval and so is the ornately carved (and much restored) chancel screen. John Harrison’s O brother, James, rehung the church bells in a new wooden frame in 1729. (In 1733 he made the bell frame for York Minster, no less.) The tower now holds 12 bells and is a centre for METHODIST bell-ringing in the region. CHAPEL The Chapel was rebuilt in 1868 in a PAPIST HALL is one of Barrow’s classical style which was oldest houses, and dates from the mid 17th a popular nonconformist style century when it was becoming fashionable of the period. The original chapel was probably more to build in brick and tile rather than timber- like the Sunday School building next to it dated 1838. frame and thatch. It was built for William The interior is a fine example of Victorian chapel design. Broxholme, who owned one of the three R manors of Barrow and was a later MP for HIGH STREET Grimsby. The name Papist Hall probably refers There are many buildings of note, many from the to a mid-18th century owner, John Pannell, a early 19th century, together with some later Victorian Roman Catholic merchant from Brigg. It was and Edwardian houses. Note the variety of Georgian later divided into three (and recently four) style doorcases and overlights and the mixture of dwellings. pantile and slate roofs. Slate roofing became affordable in the second half of the 19th century MARKET as rail links developed. Many of the buildings BARROW HALL PLACE & CROSS have fine Flemish bond brickwork – Standing on the southern edge of the village, In the Market Place stands the at least on the street Barrow Hall was built in 1789 for George P remains of a medieval cross, facing walls! Uppleby, Rector of Barrow, who has a sometimes known as the Butter monument in the church. Its home farm was Cross, its base worn smooth by Westcote, now a collection of converted farm generations of use. Stone crosses in buildings. Behind the Hall’s Georgian Classical- towns and villages were a common style frontage are a grand stairhall and a suite feature in the Middle Ages. Late 19th century of elaborately decorated rooms with ornate photographs show the Butter Cross surmounted chimneypieces, plaster-work ceilings and by a gas lamp fed from Barrow’s very own Gas Works panelled walls, one with rare needlework in St Chad; you can see the channel for a gas-pipe made panels of exotic garden flowers. For many years as part of ‘Victorian improvement’. the Hall has been used as a residential care home. Barrow Hall is not open to visitors. Suggested route Leaflet design by Publications Unit, North Council. 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Not much of the wood remains, Home of John Harrison but the village has grown into a thriving 21st century settlement with a range of shops and John Harrison, the clockmaker and inventor, a fascinating heritage.F lived and worked in Barrow for the first half of his life. It was here that he built his first St Chad founded a monastery here in the sea-going clock, H1, which was tested on 7th century as the area was converting to the Humber. Christianity and the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle on the river bank at Navigation at sea was extremely hazardous as Barrow Haven. The earthworks can still be there was no way of determining longitude. seen. Many ships were lost and in 1714 a large sum of money – the Longitude Prize – was offered Under the medieval feudal system, Barrow for a solution. Harrison believed (rightly as it had not one but three manors. There are turned out) that a sea-going timepiece could interesting buildings on the sites of all three. be the answer. Although merely a country There is a full explanation of his work in Holy Barrow Hall is a fine Georgian mansion carpenter and clockmaker, he taught himself Trinity Church in Barrow, together with a copy towards the South of the village and Down all the science needed to build such a of the famous portrait. Hall is a large Victorian house to the North. timepiece. Over the years he made several Opposite the church you will find the ‘Manor beautiful and extremely accurate clocks – John Harrison was closely associated House’ remodeled in the 19th century from an followed by the watches which finally with the church, having been choir earlier Georgian building .

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