maybe not so off topic. As people have interpreted part of it being about a barrow. Though that could be the neopagan view. But maybe. And also there's Lud's Church, which is a site on tma.
The big G grew up on the edge of a hamlet called Barrow Bridge - yes, there are barrows there - but his accent is of Burnley, less harsh than that of Notlob and more redolent of the country perhaps.