FLAXTON-on-the-MOOR, a township partly within the liberty of ST-PETER-OF-YORK, East riding, and partly in that part of the parish of BOSSALL which is in the wapentake of BULMER, North riding of the county of YORK, 9 miles (N.E.byN.) from York. The population of the former part is returned with the liberty of St. Peter; the latter contains 299 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. In 1807, a lead box, containing about three hundred small Saxon silver coins, in high preservation, some silver rings, and several pieces of spurs, were turned up by the plough in a field near this place.