FLOCKTON, a chapelry in Thornhill parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 4½ miles WNW of Haigh r. station, and 6½ E by S of Huddersfield. It has a post office under Wakefield. Acres, 1, 090. Real property, £7, 067; of which £2, 480 are in mines. Pop., 1, 090. Houses, 238. The property is much subdivided. Flockton Hall is a principal residence. Many of the inhabitants are coal-miners. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, 94.* Patrons, Certain Trustees. The church is tolerable; and there are four dissenting chapels An endowed school has £6; and other charities have £95.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))