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Market Place, Barton upon Humber |
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Barton-upon-Humber
Barton-upon-Humber shown within Lincolnshire |
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| Population | 9,334 |
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| OS grid reference | TA030221 |
| Unitary authority | North Lincolnshire |
| Ceremonial county | Lincolnshire |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BARTON-UPON-HUMBER |
| Postcode district | DN18 |
| Dialling code | 01652 |
| Police | Humberside |
| Fire | Humberside |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| UK Parliament | Cleethorpes |
| List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire | |
Barton-upon-Humber or Barton is a small town and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England located on the south bank of the Humber Estuary, and at the end of the Humber Bridge. It lies 46 miles (74 km) east of Leeds, 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Hull and 31 miles (50 km) north northeast of the county town of Lincoln. The town was formerly an important centre for the manufacture of bicycles, Hopper's Cycles being established in the town in 1880 in the Hopper Building. Other nearby towns include Scunthorpe to the southwest and Grimsby to the southeast. The civil parish of Barton-Upon-Humber includes the hamlet of Beaumontcote which lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south of the town.
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The town is the northern terminus at Barton station of a branch line (Barton – Cleethorpes), opened in 1849, from Grimsby and Cleethorpes. Services are provided by Northern Rail. The A15 passes to the west of the town cutting through the Beacon Hill, and has a junction with the A1077 Ferriby Road. The B1218 passes north-south through the town, and leads to Barton Waterside eventually. Kimberly-Clark have a factory on Falkland Way close to the railway, which is known to them as their Barton Plant. This area is known as the Humber Bridge Industrial Estate.
Barton is on the south bank of the Humber estuary and is at the southern end of the Humber Bridge. The Viking Way starts near the bridge.[1]
The town is known for its Saxon church tower of St Peter's, and there have been many Saxon archaeological finds within the town. The former church was reopened in May 2007 as a centre for medical research into the development of diseases, and ossuary, containing the bones and skeletons of some 3,750 people whose remains were removed between 1978 and 1984 from the 1,000 year old burial site, after the Church of England made the church redundant in 1972.[2][3]
A ferry to Hull began in 1351, being granted by Edward II running until 1851, but this was superseded by a ferry at New Holland which began in 1820.
There are two churches in Barton-upon-Humber, St Peter's and St Mary's. Unusually for large mediaeval churches in a small town, they are located only about five hundred feet apart. St Peter's is a large, mostly Anglo-Saxon, church and predates St Mary's — which may have originated as a chapel on the original market place, enlarged and increasing in importance as the town's trade thrived in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Baysgarth School is a in-comprehensive school for ages 11–18 on Barrow Road. There are also three primary schools, St Peter's Church of England, on Marsh Lane, the Castledyke Primary School (was Barton County School) on the B1218, and the Bowmandale primary school in the south of the town. Barton Grammar School, which opened in 1931, used to be on Caistor Road. Henry Treece, the poet and author, was a teacher at the Grammar School.
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