BARFLEUR, called formerly Barbeflot, and in the Latin chroniclers Barbatus Fluctus, an ancient town of Normandy, in France, now in the department of Manche, 15 miles E. of Cherbourg. It was at one time the seat of an active trade across the Channel, but was ruined and had its harbour filled up by the English in 1346. Cape Barfleur has a lighthouse 271 feet above the sea, in long. l 0 16' W., lat. 49° 40' N.