Barton is a linear village and civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England.

A bridge carries the A6 over the West Coast Main Line railway north of the village hall.

[3] Barton Grange was built as the country residence for John Healey, a local mill owner and was later the home of Levi Collison MP.

[8] The Boar's Head public house on the Garstang Road near St Lawrence's was part of village life for two hundred years.

Its external appearance was described in 1872; rails at the front, little white stones all round bordered by bright flowers, "scrupulously clean" front steps with roses blooming above, and a "fierce yet faded representation of a wild animal's head, with savage tusks, and a tongue swinging beautifully to the left".

[2] St Mary's Newhouse Catholic Church in Station Lane, Newsham was consecrated in 1906, the building replacing earlier ones.

[14] A. Hewitson who wrote regular columns for the Preston Chronicle in the 1870s under the nom de plume Atticus failed to be stirred by the views from the catholic chapel, saying, "nothing very picturesque can be seen .