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A flowery warning
Barrow Gurney has a notoriously narrow and twisty road that runs right through it. After many years of accidents and highway engineering, this is now the sight that greets motorists: more narrowing.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 17 Aug 2017
0.02 miles
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Former primary school at Barrow Gurney
Finally closed as a school in 1966.
Image: © Colin Park
Taken: 21 Feb 2017
0.07 miles
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Rear of Barrow Gurney Primary School
Barrow Gurney Primary School finally closed in 1966 as it had only six pupils. The building was then converted into a private dwelling.
Image: © Richard Park
Taken: Unknown
0.07 miles
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Upper Barrow Mill
Image: © Dr Duncan Pepper
Taken: 6 Jun 2013
0.08 miles
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Mill stream at Upper Barrow Mill
With a public footpath immediately adjacent, heading through the gate in the distance.
Image: © Dr Duncan Pepper
Taken: 6 Jun 2013
0.08 miles
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Lower Mill Farm
Some major building work is in progress here. Interestingly, the farm was once Upper Barrow Mill - a corn mill that used the Land Yeo stream, but which became disused before the 1930s.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 17 Aug 2017
0.10 miles
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Barrow Gurney: Upper Barrow Mill
A public footpath runs past the property to Windmill Hill and Redwood Farm. In addition to three watermills the parish appears to have had two medieval or post-medieval windmills. Possibly the parish's proximity to Bristol created extra demand. Behind the buildings on the right, at roof level, can be seen the line of the former mill leat, which would have powered an overshot waterwheel by the side of the building in the middle of the group. Milling ceased sometime between 1910 and 1935
Image: © Martin Bodman
Taken: 8 Dec 2006
0.10 miles
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Barrow Gurney Post Office
This scene hasn't changed too much since 1962. The Post office (nearest white building) closed many years ago and traffic management through the narrow village street is now in place.
Image: © Richard Park
Taken: Unknown
0.14 miles
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Compton Mead
This row of old cottages have a date over an entrance of 1690. They were extensively remodelled by Henry Martin Gibbs (of the local Gibbs family of Tyntesfield fame) from 1900-27. Grade II listed.
The post office used to run here but was closed a few years ago. Previously in the early twentieth century the office was at the end of the village, close to the modern war memorial and village hall.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 17 Aug 2017
0.14 miles
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A gift from the Gibbs family
The row of old cottages (Compton Mead) date from the late seventeenth century; they were extensively rebuilt in the early twentieth, courtesy of the local Gibbs family. They were wealthy merchants and settled in the area; their main estate was Tyntesfield House, but they also contributed to a lot if the village life. One of William Gibbs' sons, Henry Martin Gibbs, arrived in 1882 and set about major improvements to the village. His initials remain on this plaque on the end of the old Post Office.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 17 Aug 2017
0.14 miles