BARROWS STRAITS. 



parish contained 6728 inhabitants in 1851. The living in a vicarage 

 in the archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. 

 Barrow-upon-Soar Poor-Law Union contains SO parishes, townships, 

 &c., with an area of 47,668 acreK, and a population in 1851 of 20,051). 



The village of Barrow contain* besides the church, which is of the 

 decorated style with an embattled tower, places of worship belonging 

 to the Roman Catholics, Methodists, and Baptists. It has also an 

 Endowed Free Grammar school founded in 1691, which has an income 

 from endowment of about 80/. 'year; the number of scholars in 1852 

 was 35, of whom 25 were free. Perkins's school, founded in 1717, had 

 81 scholars in 1852. There is an hospital for 11 men who receive 

 each 7*. a week, and 7 women who receive 6*. each a week ; there are 

 also several other charities in the village. Stockings and bobbin-nets 

 are manufactured to a considerable extent 



BARROWS STRAITS. [NORTH POLAR COCNTRIBS.] 



BARRY, a small island in the parish of Barry, and considered to 

 be in the hundred of Dinas Powys in the county of Glamorgan. It is 

 situated in the Bristol Channel, opposite to a little village of the same 

 name on the coast of Wales, and 10 miles S.W. by S. from Cardiff. 

 The island is said by Creasy to have taken its name from one Baruc, 

 a hermit who resided and was buried there ; but it is more probable 

 that it owes its name to the De Barris of Manorbeer, who were the 

 owners of it The island contains about 800 acres of land, which were 

 some years since let at the annual rent of 802., with only one house 

 annexed, which during the summer months is fitted up as a lodging- 

 bouse for the reception of sea-bathers and will accommodate twelve 

 people. The island maintains a few sheep and cows, and has a large 

 nlil >it warren. On the western side of the island feeing the village of 

 Barry there are ruins of an ancient castle, and a few scattered stones 

 mark the site of an old chapel, probably that mentioned by Lelond as 

 a place of pilgrimage. Farther to the west the remains of another 

 chapel are distinguishable at low water. Towards the southern part 

 of the island, on a spot called Nell's Point, is a fine well, to which 

 great numbers of women resort on Holy Thursday, and having washed 

 their eyes at the spring, each drops a pin into it At low water a 

 carriage may pass over the narrow creek which separates the island 

 from the mainland, but the road leads over a very rough bonk ol 

 pebbles. Steam excursions are occasionally made to the island from 

 Bristol and Gloucester. Sir Richard Colt Hoare was informed that 

 lead and calamine had been found in the island. 



(Hoare' edition of Qiraldus de Barn's Itinerary of Archltithop 

 JBaUvin through Wait*; Clifle's Book of South Wale*.) 



BARS, or HARSH [HUNGARY.] 



BARTFELD, a free imperial town in the county of Soros, the most 

 north -easterly county of Hungary, is situated on the Topi, not for 

 from the frontiers of Galicia, in 49 16' N. lat, 21 18' E. long. The 

 town was built at the commencement of the 1 3th century, and eirjoycc 

 considerable repute in former times as a seat of learning as well as for 

 ita Protestant high school and a printing establishment, from which 

 several valuable publications proceeded in the 16th century. The 

 town possesses a fine collection of old records. Bartfeld carries on a 

 brisk trade in wine, brandy, hemp, linens, and earthenware : the 

 population, which consists principally of Roman Catholics, amount* 

 tu about 6000. In the vicinity of Bartfeld are the two celebrated 

 chalybeate springs, called the Bartfeld Baths, to which strangers 

 resort in very considerable numbers at all seasons of the year : t he\ 

 are accounted the finest mineral waters in Hungary. 



BAISTII NO.] 



n\! risfeBK.] 



i, ST., one of the Antilles, is situated in 17 63 

 long. ; having the islands of St Martin on the north, 

 distant 12 mile*, and St. Christopher's on the south, distant 28 miles. 



liortholomew's is of an irregular shape. Its greatest length is 

 from east to west, and its area is about 40 square miles. The shores 

 are nicky and dangerous of approach without an experienced pilot 

 It contains one port, Le Care'nage, which is safe and commodious ; it 

 is on the west side of the island ; and near to this harbour in the town 

 of Oustavia, which is inhabited by a mixed population of Swedes, 

 English, French, Dane*, and Americans. There are no springs on the 

 island, ami the sola dependence of the inhabitants for water is upon 

 the rain ; they have in some dry seasons been compelled to iin|...r 

 water from the neighbouring islands. 



The soil is good, and produces sugar, cotton, tobacco, mondioc, an< 

 indigo. Some limestone of peculiar quality is quarried and sent to 

 diftVreot islands in the West India*, when it is used for bnil.ling 

 purpose*. There is abundance of wood in the island, includinf 

 lignum-viUD and iron-wood. 



St. Bartholomew's was first settled in 1648 by a colony of Frenchmen 

 who went for that purpose from St Christopher's. In 1689 it was 

 taken by the Knglish under Admiral ThornhiU, and remained in their 

 BnsMsslun until toe peace of 1697, when H was restored to France. 

 In 1746 it was again taken by the English, and was once more given 

 ! the treaty of Aix-la-Cbapelle. In 1786 the island was ceded 

 by t ranee to Sweden, ami it has since continued subject to that 

 power. Tb population of the island is about 18,000. 



Thompson's AUtdo . Purdy-s Columbian Navigator ; MalhamV 

 AorW OatOlter.) 

 BARTIN, or BAUTAN, RIVER. 



BARTON-I..K ' LAV. I! >UIU>HIKK.] 



HAKToN-U'nN lH'MlfKl!, Lincolnshire, a market-town in the 

 wapentake of Yorboroiigh and division of Lindsey. It stands on the 

 right bank of the in 53 41' N. lat, 25' V, 



miles N. by K. from Lincoln, 155 miles N. from London by rood, and 

 178 miles by the Great Northern railway : the population of the 

 town in 1851 was 3866. The living is a vicarage in the archder. 

 and diocese of Lincoln. 



Barton is a place of considerable antiquity. It was once surrounded 

 jy a rampart and fosse, the remains of which are .-till visible in what 

 ate called ' the castle dykes,' and was probably otherwise fortified 

 against the aggressions of the Danes and Saxons, who often wasted 

 the country on both sides of the river. At the time of the Norman 

 Conquest Barton was a place of some importance, and one of the 

 principal ports of the Humber. In the time of Edward III. it held a 

 higher rank than most of the eastern ports. 



Barton contains two large parish churches. St. Petcr'a church 

 appears to have been built about the time of the Conquest The 

 tower, which is older than the body of the church, is an ! 

 considerable architectural interest The front of it* lower compart- 

 ment presents two rows of pillars, the lower row supporting round 

 and the higher pointed arches. The windows in the lower and upper- 

 most compartments of the tower have round arches, but in the blank 

 windows of the middle compartment the arches are pointed. The 

 surface is so covered with projecting strips of stone-work as to a- 

 divided into irregular panels. This tower, with the building w 

 it, is one of the few remaining examples of undoubted A 

 architecture. (Bloxam's 'Principles of Gothic Architecture;' 1 

 man's 'Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture' h 

 land.') The church of St. Mary is a very handsome structure of the 

 14th century, said to have been erected by the merchants of ]'. 

 as a chapel of ease to the older church. Service is ]>rrf 

 nately in each church. A Roman Catholic chapel was built in 1840, 

 and there fire several chapels belonging to the Dissenters. The town 

 consists of several well-built streets, with good inns ; hut liesidca the 

 churches it contains no public building that requires notice. A court- 

 leet is held half-yearly at Barton for the cognisance of offences com- 

 mitted in the town, and a county court ia also held here. 



The chief importance of Barton for many centurion was <1> 

 from its position on the great line of route from London to Hull, 

 there being a ferry across the Humber at this spot. A ferry here is 

 mentioned in Domesday Book. Soon after the application of steam- 

 boats to river navigation, this was made a steam-ferry ; but i 

 railway proceedings hare wholly deranged the former line of traffic 

 at Barton. The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railway 

 approaches the northern coast uf Lincolnshire at three points Bai ton, 

 New Holland, and Great Grimsby ; and in order to brinj,' tin' Hull 

 and London traffic on the line, a steam-ferry in connection witli the 

 railway has been established from New Holland to Hull, exactly 

 opposite. This ferry, the engineering arrangements of which were 

 brought to a great degree of completeness in 1849, threw Barton out 

 of the great line of route ; and compensation was paid to the owners 

 of the Barton ferry. 



There are in Barton corn-mills, breweries, malt-kiln?, tanneries, 

 lime-kilns, brick and tile works, pottery works, whiting works, rope 

 and sail and some other manufactories. 



BARTON-UPON-IRWELL. [LAXCASIIIHI:.] 



liAKWK'K. or HAltWICK IN Kl.MKTT, West Riding of York 

 shire, a parish and the seat of a Gilbert Poor-Law Iiu orp, .ration, in 

 the lower division of the wapentake of Skyrock. The villa. 

 in 63 49' N. lat, 1 23' W. long., 18 miles S.W. from York, 8 mil. -H 

 E. by N. from Leeds, and 191 miles N. by W. from London by road : 

 the population of the entire parish, which includes the town 

 Barwick and Roundhay as well as several hamlet . in 1 >.". I w > 

 that of the township of Barwick was 193. The living is a rectory in 

 the archdeaconry of Craven and diocese of Ripon. Rorwick (iilbort 

 Incorporation contains 42 parishes and townships with an an ,-i of 

 67,044 acres, and a population in 18.11 of 17,565. The chuivh. d. <li 

 cated to All Saints, is the only Imildin There 



is an endowed Free school for 14 poor children, (in Town Hill arc 

 some traces of a castle, the erection of which has been somewhat 

 vaguely attributed ( K.dwin. kite,- of Northunihria. 



HAS, or BATZ, an island off the north coast of the dcp:u'n- 

 FinUtcrre in France. It lies N.N.\V. of the town of Roscoff, is alsrnt 

 3 miles long and 2 miles broad, and in distant from the mainland 

 about three-quarters of a mile. A lighthouse, with a revolving liuhl 

 of the first class eclipsed every alternate minute, i* a hill 



223 feet above the sea-level, in 48 45' N. lat, 4" 2' W. long. The 

 island contains three villages. Four batteries and two forts, one on 

 the east the other on the west side of the isle form its defences. Tho 

 men are exclusively devoted to fishing; the women cultivate tl. 

 which is bare and unproductive. The channel between the island ami 

 the mainland of Finisterre is navigable for the largest ships, and nf!< >nl- 

 shelter against northerly and southerly winds in the channel. It is 

 exposed to west winds, from which however there is shelter to east- 

 ward in the adjacent bay of Morlaix. (Dictionnaire de la France.) 

 I '.As KN HA8SET. [LoiRK, HA! 

 BASEL, BASLE, or BALE, CANTON OF, the most north-western 



