Flaxton is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

At that time it was part of the manor of Foston and was in the possession of Earl Morcar, but passed to Count Alan of Brittany by 1086.

[4] In 1807 a lead box containing around 300 Saxon silver coins was discovered in a field near the village.

It is also within the Sheriff Hutton & Derwent electoral division of North Yorkshire Council.

[13] St Lawrence's Church, Flaxton was built in 1853 in the 13th-century Gothic style and replaced an earlier chapel.