To the west of where Brown Lane meets Church Lane once lay a small separate parish, which by 1640 was known as Garbythorpe. Few records exist of the area, but a document from 1280 names the area Karberthorpe and it is interesting to note that 'thorpe' is Danish for outlying settlement. This leads us to wonder whether this was an area in which the Danes settled following the Viking invasion and the inclusion of Barton in the Danelaw of the 10th century.

Whatever its history, the lands of Garbythorpe were administered separately for many hundreds of years as they were owned by the Peverils and then the Cliftons, and not united with those of Barton until the Cliftons and Sacheverells married in the 18th century. Even today, some Bartoners class three houses, which to all intents and purposes are in the village, as really belonging to the old parish of Garbythorpe!