Barrowden

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Barrowden
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The Duck Pond, Barrowden
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Barrowden
Location within Rutland
Area3.24 sq mi (8.4 km2)  [1]
Population420  2001 Census [2]
•  Density 130/sq mi (50/km2)
OS grid reference SK946000
•  London 78 miles (126 km) SSE
Unitary authority
Shire county
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town OAKHAM
Postcode district LE15
Dialling code 01572
Police Leicestershire
Fire Leicestershire
Ambulance East Midlands
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Rutland
52°35′24″N0°36′14″W / 52.590°N 0.604°W / 52.590; -0.604

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

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The Exeter Arms
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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.

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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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