Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FLIXTON

FLIXTON, a township in Folkton parish, E. R. Yorkshire; on the Wolds, near the Hull and Scarborough railway, 6½ miles S of Scarborough. Acres, 2, 500. Real property, £1, 563. Pop., 362. Houses, 71. An hospital was founded here, in the time of Athelstan, by Acc-horn or Acehorne; and afterwards bore the name of Carmans-Spittle. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Folkton CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Flixton

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