For years, Barrow Gurney was known as somewhere people simply drove through rather than stopped in.
The village has an unwelcome reputation as a shortcut to Bristol Airport despite the implementation of traffic calming measures to thwart this. Its narrow roads connect the A370 and the A38, meaning there have been issues with congestion and air traffic noise in the village over the years.
But the village deserves more than being diminished to a route on a map. Fans of The Wurzels might even remember the nod to the village in the song 'Drink Up Thy Zider', in reference to Barrow Hospital, a psychiatric hospital that opened in the 1930s. It was closed in 2008 and turned into accommodation.
