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Barton-upon-Humber

Barton-upon-Humber or Barton is a small town in North Lincolnshire, England located on the south bank of the River Humber, and at the end of the Humber Bridge. Formerly an important centre for the manufacture of bicycles, Hopper's Cycles being established in the town in 1880 in the Hopper Building.

Geography
History

Anglo-Saxons
Churches

Amenities

Education
Entertainment

Famous residents
See also
References
External links

Geography

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]

History

Anglo-Saxons

The town is known for its Saxon church tower of St Peter, 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A ferry to Hull began in 1351, being granted by Edward II running until 1851, but this was superseded by a ferry at New Holland which began in 1820.

Church Tower of St Peter Barton on Humber.

Churches

There are two churches in Barton-upon-Humber, St Peter's and St Mary's. They are located only several feet apart, leading to speculation about the reasons for their close location. The reason was that at the time they were built, the churches served two separate villages that later merged to form Barton-on-Humber.

Amenities

The Baysgarth Leisure Centre is at Baysgarth Park near Baysgarth House Museum, and was refurbished and reopened in June 2008.

Education

Baysgarth School is a 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 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, taught at the school.

Entertainment

The Carnival is a pub with live music on Tofts Road to the south of the town. Other town pubs are the Wheatsheaf on Holydyke (A1077), the George Hotel on George Street, the Blue Bell on Whitecross Street, Queen's on Queen Street, the Red Lion on High Street, and the White Swan on Butts Road. The Ropewalk is an arts centre on Maltkiln Road.

The North Lincolnshire and Humberside Sailing Club is at Barton Mere on the Humber to the east of Barton Waterside. It uses a former clay pit. The clay was used to make bricks at a former brickworks on the Humber foreshore from 1703. Towards the bridge is the �5.6m Water's Edge Park, with a visitor centre which opened in April 2006. The park is a home for wildfowl. Far Ings Nature Reserve is to the west of the Humber Bridge, which is run by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.

Famous residents

Famous residents have included: Isaac Pitman, inventor of the eponymous shorthand method; Samuel Wilderspin, pioneer of infant education; and currently Ken H. Harrison, the artist who draws Desperate Dan. Jamie Cann, MP for Ipswich 1992-2001 went to the grammar school. Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans was born in the town and was named after the church of St Chad on Waterside Road, of which his father, William Edward Varah, was the vicar. The church, and neighbouring primary school, were demolished in 1993.

Soham murderer Ian Huntley (who killed two 10-year-old girls in Soham, Cambridgeshire in August 2002) lived in a flat in High Street, Barton-upon-Humber, for several years until he moved to Soham in November 2001. His girlfriend Maxine Carr (who would later be found guilty of perverting the course of justice in connection with the murders committed by Huntley) lived with him in the flat from 1999. Both Huntley and Carr were born several miles away in Grimsby.