# Barrowden

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{{Short description|Village in Rutland, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place 
|official_name=Barrowden
|country=England
|region=East Midlands
|static_image_name=Duck Pond, Barrowden, Rutland.jpg
|static_image_alt=The Duck Pond, Barrowden
|static_image_caption=The Duck Pond, Barrowden
|area_footnotes=<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4361 |title=A vision of Britain through time |accessdate=28 January 2009 |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth }}</ref>
|area_total_sq_mi =3.24
| population = 420
| population_ref = [2001 Census](/source/United_Kingdom_Census_2001)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rutland.gov.uk/ppimageupload/Image27657.PDF |title=Rutland Civil Parish Populations |accessdate=25 January 2009 |publisher=Rutland County Council |date=2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012204902/http://www.rutland.gov.uk/ppimageupload/Image27657.PDF |archive-date=12 October 2007 |url-status = dead}}</ref>
 |population_density={{convert|130|/sqmi|/km2|abbr=on}} 
|os_grid_reference=SK946000
|coordinates = {{coord|52.590|-0.604|display=inline,title}}
|post_town=OAKHAM
|postcode_area=LE
|postcode_district=LE15
|dial_code=01572
|constituency_westminster=[Rutland and Stamford](/source/Rutland_and_Stamford)
|london_distance={{convert|78|mi}} [SSE](/source/Boxing_the_compass)
|unitary_england=[Rutland](/source/Rutland)
|lieutenancy_england=[Rutland](/source/Rutland)
|shire_county=[Rutland](/source/Rutland)
|website=
}}

'''Barrowden''' is a village in [Rutland](/source/Rutland) in the [East Midlands](/source/East_Midlands) of England. 
[[File:Exeter Arms, Barrowden, Rutland.jpg|left|thumb|[http://www.exeterarmsbarrowden.co.uk/ The Exeter Arms]]]
[[File:St Peter's Church, Barrowden, Rutland 1.jpg|left|thumb|[St Peter's Church](/source/St_Peter's_Church%2C_Barrowden)]]

The village's name means 'burial-mound hill'. There are a number of [barrow](/source/Tumulus)s in the area.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Rutland/Barrowden|title = Key to English Place-names}}</ref>

The population of the [civil parish](/source/civil_parish) was 506 at the 2011 census.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120427&c=Barrowden&d=16&e=62&g=6384737&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1466761647500&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=24 June 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>
There is a church, a village hall, a doctor's surgery and pharmacy, a community shop, a mobile library, a recreational field with cricket club and a pub, The Exeter Arms.

[St Peter's Church, Barrowden](/source/St_Peter's_Church%2C_Barrowden) is a [Grade II* listed](/source/Grade_II*_listed) building.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1361433|desc=Church of St Peter|grade=II*}}</ref> In an ancient tradition, rushes or hay are laid on the floors of nave and porch for [St Peter's Day](/source/St_Peter's_Day) (29 June). Marianne Mason (1807–1884), a farmer's daughter who taught at the Baptist Sunday school in Barrowden, married [Thomas Cook](/source/Thomas_Cook) here on 2 March 1833.

The Rutland Round and [Jurassic Way](/source/Jurassic_Way) long-distance paths pass through the village. The village was served by [Wakerley and Barrowden railway station](/source/Wakerley_and_Barrowden_railway_station) from 1873 to 1966. The station was across the [River Welland](/source/River_Welland) in the neighbouring parish of [Wakerley](/source/Wakerley), Northamptonshire.

Barrowden is part of [Ketton](/source/Ketton) ward on [Rutland County Council](/source/Rutland_County_Council).

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==External links==
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* {{OpenDomesday|SK9400|barrowden|Barrowden}}

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Category:Villages in Rutland
Category:Civil parishes in Rutland
Category:Ketton

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