A port continues to exist nearby and the area's rail access is based at the Barrow Haven railway station, a stop on the Barton Line.

On 5 October 1541 Henry VIII conducted a visit to Hull with the Privy Council, subsequently reaching Barrow Haven by water.

In the early twentieth century, a wooden ticket office and waiting room, with pot-belly stove, was constructed on the northern side of the railway line.

This remained in place until the 1970s but with modernisation, the ticket office was removed to a Railway Museum, in Kirton Lindsey, on the Windmill site.

[citation needed] Barrow Haven was once renowned for its bricks and pantiles made from clay recovered from the edges of the Humber.

Wooden shutters on the side of the sheds could be adjusted to control the drying rate prior to the bricks and pantiles being taken to the kiln for firing.

The Haven was an important landing point for barges bringing coal to fuel these brickyard kilns from the Yorkshire coalfields.

A local bus, owned by Wesley Clark of Barrow upon Humber, took the farmers to Brigg on Market Day (Thursday).

Cast iron fireplaces, consisting of a coal-fired open grate with a boiler box on one side and an oven on the other, were the sole means of heating and cooking.

[citation needed] The workers' cottages alongside the river suffered flooding whenever spring tides raised the level of the Humber.

[citation needed] A boatyard and dry dock were situated on the east bank of the Haven, immediately north of the railway line.

A re-furbished nissen hut and slipway are all that remains of what was once a boat building and repair industry for the Humber's two types of sailing barge, the sloop and the keel.

In some years, the bores became naturally flowing artesian wells when pressure was sufficient to allow the water to reach the surface without the aid of pumps.

[citation needed] The watercress was gathered by hand and put onto wooden trays before being taken to a packing shed where it was divided into bundles, labelled and then the roots cut off.

The bunches were then packed into wooden baskets, known as chips and transported by road to the rail and ferry centre at New Holland for delivery to customers.

[map 2] The small port of Barrow Haven, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north, on the railway line from Cleethorpes and Grimsby to Barton-upon-Humber handles timber from Latvia and Estonia.