Fordon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wold Newton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, near the border with North Yorkshire.

It is situated approximately 8 miles (13 km) south of Scarborough and 10 miles (16 km) north-west of Bridlington.

[1] There is a small church dedicated to St James that is now a Grade II* listed building.

[2] The name Fordon, first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Fordun, Fordune, and Forduna, is thought to come from the Old English words fore ('in front of') and dūn ('hill').

[3] In 1823 Fordon was in the parish of Hunmanby and the Wapentake of Dickering.