Barrowden

{{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={{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 }}

|area_total_sq_mi =3.24

| population = 420

| population_ref = 2001 Census{{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}}

|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 Melton

|london_distance={{convert|78|mi}} SSE

|unitary_england=Rutland

|lieutenancy_england=Rutland

|shire_county=Rutland

|website=

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Barrowden is a village in Rutland in the East Midlands of England.

File:Exeter Arms, Barrowden, Rutland.jpg]

File:St Peter's Church, Barrowden, Rutland 1.jpg]]

The village's name means 'burial-mound hill'. There are a number of barrows in the area.{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Rutland/Barrowden|title = Key to English Place-names}}

The population of the civil parish was 506 at the 2011 census.{{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}}

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 is a Grade II* listed building.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1361433|desc=Church of St Peter|grade=II*}} In an ancient tradition, rushes or hay are laid on the floors of nave and porch for 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 here on 2 March 1833.

The Rutland Round and Jurassic Way long-distance paths pass through the village. The village was served by Wakerley and Barrowden railway station from 1873 to 1966. The station was across the River Welland in the neighbouring parish of Wakerley, Northamptonshire.

Barrowden is part of Ketton ward on Rutland County Council.