Barrow upon Humber is a village and civil parish in North 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 of Barton-upon-Humber. The small port of Barrow Haven, 1.5 miles north, on the railway line from Cleethorpes and Grimsby to Barton handles timber from Latvia and Estonia.
People associated with Barrow-on-Humber
- St Chad was given land to found a monastery at Barrow by the king of Mercia.
- Chad Varah's father was vicar of Barrow.
- Barrow was the birthplace of John Sergeant Catholic Philosopher (1623-1707).
- Barrow upon Humber was the home of John Harrison, the pioneer of a failsafe way of establishing longitude at sea. A copy of Harrison's 1736 clock, H1, made by Larcum Kendall, travelled with Captain Cook on his Pacific voyages. Harrison was the subject of a 2000 film "Longitude" starring Michael Gambon. (The premise of the discovery of Harrison's clock was used in the plot of several episodes of the BBC situation-comedy Only Fools and Horses in which the main characters, the Trotter brothers became overnight millionaires following the auction of such an item).
