Barrowby is a village and

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in the

South Kesteven South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Bourne, Grantham, Market Deeping and Stamford. The 2011 census reports 133,788 people at 1.4 p ...

district of

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, England. It is west of

Grantham Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln a ...

. It overlooks the Vale of Belvoir and has a Grade I

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. The hamlet of Casthorpe is part of the parish. The 2001 Census listed 795 households and a population of 1,996, which fell to 840 households with 1,952 inhabitants at the 2011 census. It was estimated at 1,986 in 2019.

Etymology

The first written records for Barrowby appear in the ''

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'' of 1086, in which the village is referred to as "Bergebi". This is thought to derive from the Scandinavian languages' ''berg-by'' meaning village by the hill.

History

The Domesday Book record shows there was a church with a priest and of meadow. The village belonged until the 19th century to the historical

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of Winnibriggs and Threo. The ''

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'' village of Casthorpe is west from Barrowby. By the 14th century it was referred to in records as two holdings, East and West Casthorpe. It is now little more than a cluster of farm buildings. A further deserted medieval village is Newbo, to the north-west, site of

Newbo Abbey Newbo Abbey was a Premonstratensian house of canons regular in Lincolnshire, England, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. In the Middle Ages, Lincolnshire was one of the most densely populated parts of England. Within the historical county there ...

. The village was located by archaeologists in 1970.

Geography

Barrowby stands where the A52 road crosses the

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, which separates the village from the western edge of Grantham. The village is close to the Lincolnshire border with

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and

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. It is above sea level and adjacent to the Vale of Belvoir. From the village it is possible to see

Belvoir Castle Belvoir Castle ( ) is a faux historic castle and stately home in Leicestershire, England, situated west of the town of Grantham and northeast of Melton Mowbray. The Castle was first built immediately after the Norman Conquest of 1066 an ...

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, and the power stations in the Trent valley, including West Burton and Cottam, near Gainsborough over away. Adjoining villages include

Sedgebrook Sedgebrook is an English village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire. It lies on the A52 road, west of Grantham. Its population, given as 372 in 2001, fell by the 2011 census to 355, and was estimated to be 347 in ...

Harlaxton Harlaxton is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the edge of the Vale of Belvoir and just off the A607, south-west from Grantham and north-east from Melton Mowbray. History A ...

, Denton and the hamlets of Casthorpe and Stenwith.

Culture and community

There has been a Barrowby fête or gala in various forms since the 1950s. From 2004 until recently, an annual Barrowby Gala and Beer Festival was held on the village green. The event, with stalls, games, fairground rides, and

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, was organised by a committee of village residents. Barrowby combines old buildings, cottages and manor houses, with newer buildings in a housing estate built within the last few decades. Linking the new housing estate and the original Barrowby centre are two main roads, High Road and Low Road. Some surrounding road names reflect the names of patrons and residents who established and shaped the village. Barrowby contains a post office, a cafe and a butcher's. The village public house is ''The White Swan''. Until 1959 there was a second public house, ''The Marquis of Granby Inn'', on the corner of Welby Court and Main Street. It is pictured in a 1910 postcard of the village. The

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Grade I listed parish church, dedicated to All Saints, was built in the 13th and 14th centuries from ironstone and limestone, in the Early English and

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Gothic styles. The church was extensively restored in 1852 and 1870. It includes a medieval door on the south side of the

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, a humorous

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at the foot of a south window, depicting a head that seems to have been pinched out of place by the adjacent buttress, and a blocked north door. Significant internal features include

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windows. The

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belongs to the Barrowby and

Great Gonerby Great Gonerby is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 2,200. It is situated less than north from Grantham. To its north is Gonerby Mo ...

group in the

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. The incumbent was Rev. Peter Hopkins until his retirement in 2019. Services are held in Gonerby and at All Saints. There was a Methodist chapel in Chapel Lane, next to where the post office now stands.

Education

Barrowby

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was built in 1852 adjacent to the church. Part of the original school hall and bell tower remain. It has since been modernised with additional buildings. It has a school roll of about 240 pupils aged 4–11 and has received Basic Skills Mark,

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, and

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Silver Status awards.

Notable people

*Dr Thomas Hurst was born in the village in 1598 and became rector of Barrowby in 1629. He became chaplain to King Charles I.Grantham Civic Society repor
Retrieved 14 May 2018.
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Sir John Thorold, 4th Baronet Sir John Thorold, 4th Baronet (1664 – 14 January 1717) of Marston Hall and Cranwell, Lincolnshire was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament representing either Grantham or Lincolnshire in a number of parliaments between 1697 a ...

was a landowner who owned about a quarter of the parish, the other parts being split between the

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and the Welby family. The Thorold family also owned land in the nearby villages of Casthorpe and

. Thorold Road is named after Sir John.

References

External links

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Location map of BarrowbyAerial view of BarrowbyWeb site of Barrowby CofE Primary School, BarrowbyAll Saints Church BarrowbyBarrowby Improvement Group (B.I.G.)
* {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District