FLIXTON, a township in the parish of FOLKTON,
wapentake of DICKERING, East riding of the county of
YORK, 6 miles (S.) from Scarborough, containing 267
inhabitants. An hospital was founded here in the
reign of Athelstan, by one Acchorn, a knight, for an alderman
and fourteen brethren and sisters, " to preserve
travellers from wolves and other wild beasts;" it was
restored and confirmed in the 25th of Henry VI., by the
name of Carman's Spittle, but was dissolved before the
26th of Henry VIII: a farm-house occupies its site.