Barnsley, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, near the river Colne and the old Roman road, the Ickneild Way, 4 miles NE of Cirencester, with a post office under Ciren-cester, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Bibury. Acreage, 2163; population, 227. The manor was given by Edward III. to the Earl of Kent, from whom it descended to Joan, the wife of the Black Prince. It was granted again to the Bourchiers, and passed by marriage to the Perrot family, and thence to the Musgrave family, in whose possession it remains. Barnsley Park, the present seat, was built about 1730. It is in the Italian style, and contains some frescoes and antiques. The park is extensive. Freestone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £205. the church is Transition Norman, and was restored in 1841. All the windows are filled with stained glass.
