FLOCKTON, a chapelry comprising Nether Flockton and Over Flockton, in the parish of THORNHILL, lower division of the wapentake of AGBRIGG, West riding of the county of YORK, 6 miles (E. by S.) from Huddersfield, containing 988 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rector of Thornhill. The Independents have here a place of worship. There is a small sum for the education of children. The chapelry abounds with coal mines.