Barrowden
The Duck Pond, Barrowden
The Duck Pond, Barrowden
Barrowden is located in Rutland
Barrowden
Barrowden
Location within Rutland
Area3.24 sq mi (8.4 km2) [1]
Population420 2001 Census[2]
• Density130/sq mi (50/km2)
OS grid referenceSK946000
• London78 miles (126 km) SSE
Unitary authority
Shire county
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townOAKHAM
Postcode districtLE15
Dialling code01572
PoliceLeicestershire
FireLeicestershire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament

Barrowden is a village in Rutland in the East Midlands of England.

The Exeter Arms
St Peter's Church

The village's name means 'burial-mound hill'. There are a number of barrows in the area.[3]

The population of the civil parish was 506 at the 2011 census.[4] There is a church, a village hall, a doctor's surgery and pharmacy, a community shop, a mobile library, a recreational field with cricket club and a pub, The Exeter Arms.

St Peter's Church, Barrowden is a Grade II* listed building.[5] In an ancient tradition, rushes or hay are laid on the floors of nave and porch for St Peter's Day (29 June). Marianne Mason (1807–1884), a farmer's daughter who taught at the Baptist Sunday school in Barrowden, married Thomas Cook here on 2 March 1833.

The Rutland Round and Jurassic Way long-distance paths pass through the village. The village was served by Wakerley and Barrowden railway station from 1873 to 1966. The station was across the River Welland in the neighbouring parish of Wakerley, Northamptonshire.

Barrowden is part of Ketton ward on Rutland County Council.

References

  1. ↑ "A vision of Britain through time". GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 28 January 2009.
  2. ↑ "Rutland Civil Parish Populations" (PDF). Rutland County Council. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 25 January 2009.
  3. ↑ "Key to English Place-names".
  4. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St Peter (Grade II*) (1361433)". National Heritage List for England.
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