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Barrow upon Soar in Leicester County England History and GeographyBARROW upon SOAR, a parish partly in the eastern, and partly in the western, division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 2 miles (N.) from Mount-Sorrell. The former part contains 1568 inhabitants; and the latter, with the chapelries of Mount-Sorrell, Quorndon, and Woodhouse, 3992: the total population is 5560. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £15. 2. 8½., and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Barrow is a large and pleasant village, situated near the river Soar, whence it has received the adjunct to its name. For many centuries it has been noted for a very fine kind of lime, which is made from a hard blue stone obtained here; a considerable quantity is exported to Holland, and elsewhere. The Loughborough canal passes through the parish. The free school is endowed with land producing £55 per annum, bequeathed by the Rev. Humphrey Perkins, in 1717. A school for six poor children has a small endowment, the produce of various benefactions. An almshouse for six poor widows, or aged bachelors, was founded in 1686, by the Rev. Humphrey Babington; who endowed it with an estate now producing £200 per annum; he also left a fund for other charitable purposes. Dr. William Beveridge, the learned bishop of St. Asaph, was born here in 1638; he bequeathed a rent charge of £2 per annum, for eight poor housekeepers in this parish. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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