Barrow

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Contents 1 Places 1.1 United Kingdom 1.2 Ireland 1.3 United States 1.4 Australia 1.5 Canada 1.6 The Moon 2 People 3 Transportation 4 Sport 5 Fiction 6 See also

Barrow may refer to:

• a cart or flat rectangular tray with handles at each end; for example, a wheelbarrow
• a tumulus, a large mound of earth or stone placed over a burial site
• a castrated pig

[edit] Places

[edit] United Kingdom

• Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, a large industrial town and port
  • Barrow Island (England), an island in Barrow-in-Furness, one of the Islands of Furness
  • Barrow-in-Furness (borough), a district of South Cumbria
• Barrow, Cheshire
• Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire
• Barrow upon Humber, Lincolnshire
• Barrow upon Trent, Derbyshire
• Barrow, Suffolk
• Barrow, Shropshire
• Barrow, Rutland
• Barrow, Somerset
• Barrow, Suffolk
• Barrow, Gloucestershire
• Barrow, Clitheroe, Lancashire
• Barrow (Lake District), a fell in the county of Cumbria

[edit] Ireland

• Barrow Harbour, a tidal inlet off Tralee Bay, County Kerry
• River Barrow, a river, one of the Three Sisters

[edit] United States

• Barrow, Alaska, a city in North Slope Borough
  • Point Barrow, a headland 9 miles northeast of the town of Barrow, the northernmost point of the United States
• Barrow, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Greene County

[edit] Australia

• Barrow Creek, Northern Territory, a town in the Northern Territory
• Barrow Island (Western Australia), an island off the coast of Western Australia
• Barrow Island (Queensland), part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Ninian Bay, Queensland

[edit] Canada

• Barrow Bay, Ontario

[edit] The Moon

• Barrow (crater), a crater on the Moon, named after Isaac Barrow

[edit] People

• Bernard Barrow, former American actor
• Clyde Barrow, former American gangster, part of the Bonnie and Clyde crime duo
• Dean Barrow, Belizean politician
• Ed Barrow, former baseball executive
• Errol Barrow, former Barbados politician
• Henry Barrowe, 16th Century English Puritan and separatist
• Isaac Barrow, 17th Century English divine, scholar and mathematician
• Isaac Barrow (bishop), Bishop of Sodor and Man and of St Asaph; Governor of the Isle of Man
• Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, 19th Century English statesman
• John Barrow (U.S. politician), American politician
• John D. Barrow, English theoretical physicist
• Joseph Louis Barrow, former heavyweight boxing champion, better known simply as Joe Louis
• Nita Barrow, former Barbados nurse and humanitarian activist
• Steve Barrow, reggae historian
• Thomas Barrow, former Canadian politician
• Tony Barrow, English public relations man for The Beatles

[edit] Transportation

• Mary Barrow, a schooner beached at Porthminster in 1908.

[edit] Sport

• Barrow A.F.C., an English football (soccer) team based in the town of Barrow-in-Furness
• Barrow Raiders, a British rugby league team from Barrow-in-Furness

[edit] Fiction

• Barrow-wight, a wraith-like creature in J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth

[edit] See also

• Barrow Hill