Barwick is a village and parish in Somerset, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Yeovil and on the border with Dorset.

[1] The earliest signs of habitation in the area were the relics of a Bronze Age burial which were found in 1826, a little to the north of the village of Stoford, which may be a Saxon name derived from Stow-Ford.

In the Middle Ages, Stoford was shown as a new town and in an Inquisition or survey of 1273 there were 74 burgages each paying 10d (ten pence) a year.

Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

The estate originally formed part of the property of Syon Abbey, and passed through various hands after the Dissolution in the 1530s.

The present house and park are thought to have been built in 1770 by John and Grace Newman, whose relations owned neighbouring Newton Surmaville.

The house was set in pleasure grounds containing a lake and grotto, while the surrounding parkland was ornamented with a Gothic lodge and a group of four follies.

In the early 19th century the estate passed to Thomas Messiter, a barrister, who was John Newman's nephew and in 1830 the mansion was remodelled in a Jacobean Revival style.

Following derequisition of the property, after the war, the Messiter family carried out considerable modernisation and repairs and took up residence.

In the 1990s the estate was sold to a private owner, and substantial repairs were carried out to the house, orangery and landscape structures.

The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene is just off the A37 at the western end of the village, about half a mile away from the main centre of population.