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is a town in Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 16,819 at the 2000 census.
magazine ranked Barrington sixth on its list of the 100 best places to live in the United States.
Barrington is located at (41.745201, -71.318193) along the tidal Barrington River.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 15.4 square miles (39.9 km²), of which, 8.4 square miles (21.8 km²) of it is land and 7.0 square miles (18.2 km²) of it (45.46%) is water.