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BARTON-upon HUMBER is a neat and well built market town, pleasantly situated on gently rising ground, near the south shore of the river Humber, where there is an ancient and much frequented ferry by steam and sailing packets to and from Hull, several times a day, the distance between the two places being about six miles; and here is also a ferry across the river to Hessle, on the opposite shore. Barton is about half a mile from the large Inn at the ferry, 6 miles S.W. of Hull, 34 miles N. by E. of Lincoln, and 167 miles N. of London. It is one of the polling places for the Parts of Lindsey, and is in two parishes, -St. Mary's and St. Peter's, which contain 6740 acres of land and had only 1709 inhabitants in 1801; but in 1811, they had increased to 2204; in 1821, to 2496; in 1831 to 3233; and in 1841, to 3466. The number of houses in 1841 was 1226, of which 39 were empty when the census was taken. The town has been much improved during the last ten years; and has many neat modern houses, and several broad butirregularly built streets: Its market held every Monday, is well supplied with corn and provisions, and once a fortnight it is a great cattle mart. Here is also an annual fair on Trinity Thursday for cattle, &c; and on the two following days pleasure. An hiring for servants is held on the Wednesday after old May Day. A great trade in corn, malt, and flour is carried on here. There are in and near the town, several corn mills; malt and lime kilns; brick and tile, and tan and fellmongers' yards; a coarse pottery; and manufactories of Paris-whiting, starch, rope, sail cloth, &c. Being at the northern termination of the Wolds, the country around Barton is fertile and picturesque; the hills abound in fine chalk-limestone, of which the best whiting is made; the lower grounds have excellent clay for bricks, tiles, and coarse earthen ware; and there is a fine stream of water flowing northward through the town to the Humber, diverted into a mill-race, and crossed in various places by bridges, mills, and ther buildings.
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