FARRINGTON-GURNEY, a chapelry in the parish of CHEWTON-MENDIP, hundred of CHEWTON, county of SOMERSET, 8 miles (N. E. by N.) from. Wells, containing 526 inhabitants. The chapel is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The adjunct to the name is derived from the Gournays, its ancient possessors, of whom Sir Thomas de Gournay was concerned in the murder of Edward II. at Berkeley castle, for which his estates were confiscated, and Farrington has since been annexed to the duchy of Cornwall. A coal mine is wrought here.