Barrington, a parish in Cambridgeshire, on the river Cam, 1 mile N from Foxton station on the G.E.R., and 7 miles SSW of Cambridge. It has a post office under Cambridge; telegraph office, Shepreth railway station. Acreage, 2282 ; population, 583. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, ?75 with residence. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. the church is ancient and interesting, and there is a neat Congregational chapel.