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YARBOROUGH WAP. (NORTH DIV.)
BARROW-upon-Humber, is a large and well built village, on an eminence, 3 miles E. of Barton, 5 miles S.S.W. of Hull, and 1, 1/2 miles S. of the Humber, commanding an extensive view of that river and the Yorkshire shore. Its parish contains 1336 souls, and upwards of 4600 acres of land, including a tract of rich salt marshes, the farms called Barrow-Hand; Barrow Old Ferriby, 2 miles N. by W. of the village,and the modern hamlet of NEW HOLLAND, where a large Inn was built on the Humber bank, about ten years ago; the turnpike extended it , and every other necessary accommodation provided for the establishment of a ferry from Hull in connection with the London and other mails. As New Holland is nearly opposite Hull, the passage between the two places is only about three miles; but the passage by the Barton Ferry is about 6 miles, and much more hazardous; yet not withstanding these great advantages, the Inn at New Holland had been built several years before the mails which now run to it, and the ferry, by steam and sailing packets, were regularly established; owing to the position of the lessees of the Barton Ferry. Barrow village is about 2 miles from New Holland, and has a spacious street, at the south end of which is an area called the market place, and having an ancient cross.
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