It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) north-east of Bytów and 65 km (40 mi) south-west of Gdańsk (capital city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship).

The oldest known mention of Parchowo comes a document of Wolimir, Bishop of Kuyavia from 1253.

[1] Parchowo was the seat of local royal starosts from 1663 until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, when it was annexed by Kingdom of Prussia.

During the German occupation (World War II), in September 1939, the Einsatzkommando 16 murdered the local Polish priest Sylwester Frost as part of a massacre of Polish priests in the forest near Kartuzy (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).

[2] Also during the occupation, the historic Neptune's Fountain from Gdańsk was hidden in the village.