Barkston is an English village and civil parish[3] in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire. The parish population was 497 at the 2001 census and 493 at the 2011 census.[4] The village lies about 4 miles (6 km) north of the market town of Grantham, on the A607, just south of the junction with the A153 to Ancaster.