The settlement of Flockton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Agbrigg in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Agbrigg

The Meaning of the Name

The name Flockton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Flockton.

Listed Buildings Near Flockton

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Flockton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Milestone in Front of Number 30 - 0.4 km
2,4,6 and 8, Haigh Lane - 0.41 km
Church of St James the Great - 0.62 km
Zion United Reformed Church - 0.64 km
Farmbuildings 10 Metres North West of Kirby Grange Hall - 0.92 km
Aisled Barn 20 Metres North of Kirby Grange Hall - 0.94 km
Kirkby Grange Hall - 0.95 km
6.25 Miles Post, 0.25 Mile West of Junction With Grange Lane - 1.28 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Flockton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Flockton:

Standing cross at Emley - 1.58 km

Flockton Today

Today Flockton lies within the administrative area of Kirkburton, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,107 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Flockton on Wikipedia .