Description

Barrow, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 1 1/2 mile S of Higham railway station on the G.E.R., and 6 W of Bury-St-Edmunds. It has a post and telegraph office under Bury-St-Edmunds. Acreage, 2677; population, 952. the living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £475 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Cambridge. The church, which is an ancient building of flint and stone, in the Early English style, has some interesting tombs and monuments. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels, an endowed infant school, and some small charities. Francis, the translator of Horace, was rector of Barrow.