BARROW-GURNEY, a parish in the hundred of HARTCLIFFE-with-BEDMINSTER, county of SOMERSET, 5§ miles (S.W.) from Bristol, containing 285 inhabitants. The living is a donative, in the patronage of Montague Gore, Esq. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here about 1200, the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was valued at £29. 6. 8.: the site is now occupied by a fine old mansion in the Elizabethan style.