Leicestershire
Charnwood District
Barrow upon Soar

Barrow upon Soar

Barrow upon Soar is a large village in northern , in the Soar Valley between and , with a population at the 2011 census of 5,856. In the March 2021 census, it registered a population of 6,825.
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  • Type: Village with 5,200 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England
  • Also known as: “Barrow”, “Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire”, “Barrow-on-Soar”, and “Barrow-upon-Soar”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Holy Trinity Church, Barrow upon Soar and Barrow-upon-Soar railway station.

Church
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holy Trinity Church is a church in Barrow upon Soar, . It is a Grade II* listed building.

Railway station
Photo: Duncan Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the large village of Barrow-upon-Soar in , England. The station is located on the Midland Main Line between and , 108 miles 52 chains north of .

Public building
is a grade II listed country house in the village of . It is a three-storey brick built house originally constructed circa 1680 but later much modified.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Quorn and Woodthorpe.

Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in , England, near the university town of . Its name was shortened from Quorndon in 1889, to avoid postal difficulties owing to its similarity to the name of another village, , in neighbouring Derbyshire.

Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet just south of and a former civil parish in the Charnwood district of , England. In 1931, the parish had a population of 53. is situated 2 miles west of Barrow upon Soar.

Village
Photo: Kev747, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former industrial village and civil parish in the Soar Valley in the Charnwood borough of , England. It is located between and . is situated 2½ miles southeast of Barrow upon Soar.

Barrow upon Soar

Latitude
52.75163° or 52° 45′ 6″ north
Longitude
-1.15004° or 1° 9′ 0″ west
Population
5,200
Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BUO
Open location code
9C4WQR2X+MX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27044229
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2656239
Wiki­data ID
Q808993
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Barrow upon Soar” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Belarusian: “Барау-эпон-Сор”
  • Bengali: “বার‍্যো আপন স্যোর”
  • Cebuano: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Chinese: “索尔河畔巴罗”
  • Chinese: “索爾河畔巴羅”
  • Dutch: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • French: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • German: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Gujarati: “બેરો અપોન સોર”
  • Irish: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Italian: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Italian: “Barrow-on-Soar”
  • Japanese: “バロウ・アポン・ソーア”
  • Kannada: “ಸೋರ್ ಮೇಲೆ ಬಾರೋ”
  • Korean: “바로우 어폰 소어”
  • Ladin: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Lithuanian: “Barou prie Soro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Norwegian: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Polish: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Portuguese: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Russian: “Бароу-апон-Сор”
  • Spanish: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Swedish: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Tamil: “அபேர்பில்டய்”
  • Telugu: “బారో అప్ఆన్ సోయర్”
  • Turkish: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • Urdu: “بارو اپون سور”
  • Welsh: “Barrow upon Soar”
  • “Barrow upon Soar”

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