Barlow is a small village and civil parish located in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England, about 16 miles south of York.

The village's two nature reserves offer a network of paths and bridleways for woodland walks but neither allows horse riding.

At the very end of the village is a roundabout, and beyond this the gated entrance can be found to the Skylark Nature Reserve and Education Centre.

Also operating from the reserve is the Yorkshire Swan & Wildlife Rescue Hospital, a local registered charity where many thousands of injured animals are treated and rehabilitated back to the wild each year.

[6] The furrow fields suggest that the area was in use around the time of the Norman Conquest, as the settlement was recorded in the Domesday Book as 'Berlai'.

[7] In 1520, London gentry family the Thompsons purchased the lands and built Barlow Hall and later the village chapel in the 16th century.

[8] In 1912, the NER established the Selby-Goole railway line which ran through the current nature reserve down to the merry-go-rounds at Drax.