A township and parish in Eddisbury Hundred (SJ 4769).
Includes the hamlets of Broomhill, Great Barrow, Hollowmoor Heath, Little Barrow, Long Green, Milton Brook and Stamford Bridge.
The population was 501 in 1801, 659 in 1851, 727 in 1901 and 1065 in 1951.
CHURCHES AND CHAPELS
Barrow, St. Bartholomew (C of E). The ancient parish church for the township of Barrow. Registers of Baptisms 1572-2001, Marriages 1590-1983 and Burials
1572-1921 (with significant gaps in the 1600s) have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.
Great Barrow, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Founded 1842, closed 1981. Registers 1924-1961 are at Chester City Record Office.
Little Barrow, Methodist Chapel. Built c.1920.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS
Tarvin Rural Sanitary District (1875-94); Tarvin Rural District (1894-1936); Chester Rural District (1936-74); Chester (1974-date)
ELECTORAL DISTRICTS
North Cheshire (1832-67); West Cheshire (1868-85); Eddisbury (1885-1948); Chester (1949-74)
POOR-LAW UNIONS
Great Boughton (1837-71); Chester (1871-1930)
REGISTRATION DISTRICTS
Great Boughton (1837-69); Chester (1870-1937); West Cheshire (1937-74); Chester & Ellesmere Port (1974-98); Cheshire West (1998-date)
Barrow, St. Bartholomew (C of E). The ancient parish church for the township of Barrow. Registers of Baptisms 1572-2001, Marriages 1590-1983 and Burials
1572-1921 (with significant gaps in the 1600s) have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.