{{use British English|date=January 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox UK place | static_image_name = St Bartholomew's Church in Barbon.jpg | static_image_caption = St Bartholomew's Church | official_name = Barbon | type = Village and parish | country = England | region = North West England | os_grid_reference = SD6282 | label_position = top | coordinates = {{coord|54.217|-2.567|display=inline,title}} | population = 236 | population_ref = ''(2011)''<ref name=census2011/> | civil_parish = Barbon | unitary_england = Westmorland and Furness | lieutenancy_england = Cumbria | constituency_westminster = Morecambe and Lunesdale | post_town = CARNFORTH | postcode_district = LA6 | postcode_area = LA | dial_code = 015242 | pushpin_map = United Kingdom South Lakeland | pushpin_map_caption = Location in the former South Lakeland district }}
'''Barbon''' is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 263,<ref>{{NOMIS2001|id=16UG004|title=Barbon Parish|access-date=25 April 2021}}</ref> which decreased to 236 according to the 2011 Census.<ref name=census2011>{{NOMIS2011|id=E04002587|title=Barbon Parish|access-date=25 April 2021}}</ref> The church is dedicated to St Bartholomew. The village is about {{convert|3|miles}} north of Kirkby Lonsdale and {{convert|2|miles}} north of Casterton. Barbon Beck flows through, and takes its name from the village before flowing into the River Lune. The A683 road passes to the west of the village between Kirkby Lonsdale and Sedbergh. The village has been within the Yorkshire Dales National Park since 1 August 2016.
==Description== The village was the childhood home of the poet Catherine Grace Godwin who died here in 1845.<ref name=book>[http://access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv338cb157 The Poetical Works of the Late Great Catherine Grace Godwin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116130559/http://access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv338cb157 |date=16 January 2016 }}, A.Cleveland Wigan, 1854</ref>
The Barbon Inn, in the centre of the village, is a hotel, pub and restaurant built as a coaching inn in the 17th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theaa.com/pubs/the-barbon-inn-374910 |title=The Barbon Inn |publisher=The Automobile Association |accessdate=2011-03-18 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319203115/http://www.theaa.com/pubs/the-barbon-inn-374910 |archivedate=2012-03-19 }}</ref>
Barbon Manor was built as a shooting lodge for Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth,<ref name=NCL>{{cite web | url = https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/barbon-manor/| title = Barbon Manor|access-date = 25 August 2025| website = University of Newcastle}}</ref> (the Shuttleworth family had been lords of the manor at Barbon since the 16th century).<ref name=NCL/> His grandson Edward James Kay-Shuttleworth (1890-1917) is buried at Barbon<ref>{{cite web | url = https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/4361 | website = Imperial War Museum | access-date = 25 August 2025| title = Kay-Shuttleworth Brothers}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/4026455 | website = Imperial War Museum | access-date = 25 August 2025| title = We remember the Honourable Edward James Kay-Shuttleworth}}</ref> Edward's wife, Sibell Eleanor Maud née Adeane, later married Roger Fulford and they lived together at Barbon Manor.<ref name=dnb>Hart-Davis, Rupert, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31128 "Fulford, Sir Roger Thomas Baldwin (1902–1983)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,'' Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2008, accessed 22 November 2008]</ref>
Thw Barbon Manor Speed Hillclimb is an event that takes place on three occasions each year, in May, June and July, on a driveway that runs through Barbon Manor Park, by permission of the Shuttleworth Estate.
[[File:Barbon railway station 1753683 35820027.jpg|thumb|left|Until 1954 Barbon had a railway station seen here in 1962]]
==Other sources== A family history study, written in 1913, says, "The Hardys of Barbon, and some other Westmoreland Statesmen : Their Kith, Kin and Childer" followed their family history in Barbon from the 16th century until the late 19th century.<ref>republished by Bibliolife</ref>
==See also== {{portal|Cumbria}} *Listed buildings in Barbon
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Barbon}} *[http://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/township/barbon Cumbria County History Trust: Barbon] (nb: provisional research only - see Talk page) * http://barbonvillage.co.uk/ * http://barbon.org.uk/ * {{OpenDomesday|SD6382|barbon|Barbon}}
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Category:Villages in Cumbria Category:Westmorland and Furness Category:Civil parishes in Cumbria Category:Yorkshire Dales
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