Barrow upon Trent is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

South Derbyshire South Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The population of the local authority at the 2011 Census was 94,611. It contains a third of the National Forest, and the council offices are in Swadlincote. The district a ...

district of

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

, England with a business park planned for the outskirts of the village. The village is south of

Derby Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gai ...

, and between the

River Trent The Trent is the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, third-longest river in the United Kingdom. Its Source (river or stream), source is in Staffordshire, on the southern edge of Biddulph Moor. It flows through and drains the North Midland ...

(to the south) and the

Trent and Mersey Canal The Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire in north-central England. It is a "narrow canal" for the vast majority of its length, but at the extremities to the east of Burton upon Trent and north of Middle ...

(to the north). According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 546, increasing to 558 at the 2011 Census. Nearby places are

Sinfin Sinfin is a suburb of Derby, England, southwest of the city centre on its southern outskirts. The ward, which includes Osmaston as well as Sinfin itself, had a population of 15,128 in 2011. Historically, Sinfin and Osmaston were separate vill ...

, Ingleby,

Arleston Arleston is a Hamlet (place), hamlet in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, about south of the centre of Derby. It is located northwest of Barrow upon Trent and is part of that village's Civil parishes in England, civil paris ...

, and

Swarkestone Swarkestone is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 187. Swarkestone has a very old village church, a full cricket pitch, a plant nursery/ garden centre and re ...

. One of the earliest mentions of this place is in the

Domesday book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

where it is listed amongst the lands given to

Henry de Ferrers Henry de Ferrers (died by 1100), magnate and administrator, was a Norman who after the 1066 Norman conquest was awarded extensive lands in England. Origins He was the eldest son of Vauquelin de Ferrers and in about 1040 inherited his father's ...

''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p. 748 by the

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. The land included of ground space and there were four oxen. Some of the land was described as "waste" but the value was put at two shillings. The parish council owns an attractive row of ten Grade II listed cottages, known as "The Row". These are rented to people with village connections.Parish council site
accessed 20 March 2013 It also owns "The Pinfold", a small walled area originally used for holding stray cattle. The village is home to a Tarmac quarry.

Famous people

Barrow-Upon-Trent was home to the writer

Anne Mozley Anne Mozley (17 September 1809 – 27 June 1891)Albert Frederick Pollard. ''Anne Mozley'' Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 39. p. 249. was a British author and critic. She lived in Derby and the small village of Barrow-u ...

Ellen Jordan, ‘Mozley, Anne (1809–1891)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 17 Nov 2014
/ref> and the artist George Turner (1841–1910) who moved here from

Cromford Cromford is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, in the valley of the River Derwent between Wirksworth and Matlock. It is north of Derby, south of Matlock and south of Matlock Bath. It is first mentioned in the 11th-century Do ...

. Turner went on to train his son,

William Lakin Turner William Lakin Turner (25 February 1867 – 21 October 1936) was an English landscape artist. Life and work William Lakin Turner was born to George Turner and his wife, Eliza Turner (née Lakin) (1837–1900) in 1867 at Barrow upon Trent, D ...

, along with David Payne in the village.

Facilities

In the parish there are a number of facilities: village hall, public house, youth group, preschool playgroup (2 years and above), Sale and Davy's C of E Primary School, St Wilfrid's church (developed by the Knights Hospitallers) and a children's play park as well as a larger park with both a full size and a smaller size football pitch. There is no shop or post office.

Transport

The main road, the A5132 has bypassed the village, if the houses on Swarkestone Road are to be excluded, since 1969. There are bus services to

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

and

, but only on weekdays.

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrow Upon Trent Villages in Derbyshire Civil parishes in Derbyshire South Derbyshire District

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