BARLEY, a chapelry in the parish of HEMINGBROUGH, wapentake of OUZE-and-DERWENT, East riding of the county of YORK, If mile (N. E. by E.) from Selby, containing 349 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Hemingbrough, within the jurisdiction of the peculiar court of Howdenshire, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty. Here is a small endowed school.