BARTON-ON-HUMBER, a market-town in the hundred of Yarborough and county of Lincoln. It stands on the Humber, six miles S.W. of Hull, with which town it has steam communication. Its principal trade is in corn and flour, and it has manufactures of ropes, sacking, bricks, and tiles. It has two parish churches. Market-day, Monday. Pop. in 1851, 3866.