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FOLKTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.

"FOLKTON, a parish in the E.R. of Yorkshire."

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"FLIXTON, in the parish of Folkton, the E.R. of Yorkshire, to the N. W. of Hunamby; where a hos. was built, in the time of Athelstan, to shelter travellers from wolves, by which this country was then very much infested."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer, 1750]