FOLKTON, a parish in the wapentake of DICKERING, East riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Flixton and Folkton, and containing 411 inhabitants, of which number, 144 are in the township of Folkton, 6 miles (S. by B.) from Scarborough. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeacon-, ry of the East riding, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £8. 11. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty; there is also a sinecure rectory, rated at £15. H. Osbaldeston, Esq. was patron in 1817. The church is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist.