Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire

Description
Barrow-upon-Soar, a village, a township, a parish, and the head of a poor law union in Leicestershire, on the river Soar, and on the M.R., 3 miles SE of Loughborough, with a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Loughborough. The village is inhabited principally by gentry, farmers, labourers, and quarrymen, and has long been noted for a hard blue limestone which contains interesting fossils, and of which large quantities are burned into lime for cement. The township includes the village, and comprises 2499 acres; population, 2245. The manor was known to the Saxons as Barwe, and belonged to Hugh Lupus. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough ; net yearly value, £325 with residence, in the gift of St John's College, Cambridge. The church underwent thorough restoration in 1870. A very fine sculptured reredos was erected in 1893. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Roman Catholics. The parish possesses an endowed grammar school and several valuable charities. Bishop Beveridge, who died in 1708, was a native.