The village of Barnby Dun - much expanded since the construction of suburban housing from the 1960s onwards - originally took the form in this area of typical narrow village plots with frontages on 'High Street'. Church Road / Top Road seems to form the northern boundary of the settlement on historic maps (possibly originating as a 'back lane'), with the southern limit of the plots bounded by 'Town End Drain'. This pattern of narrow 'burgage' type plots was still clearly apparent on OS mapping until 1967 although by the time of Magilton's survey (1977) "the few remains of the old village [were] engulfed with modern housing" (p10). This area shows an area within which most features can be traced on late 19th century detailed mapping, although there is a certain amount of 20th century infill development. Partial legibility of a possible medieval village plan.