Bartonon Humber

Barton-on-Humber, a market-town of Lincolnshire, on the S. bank of the Humber, with a station on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, 6 miles from Hull. It possesses the churches of St. Peter, dating from the eleventh century, and St. Mary, founded in the fourteenth. Ropes, sacking, and bricks are made here, and there is some trade in corn and flour.