Foston on the Wolds is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

The civil parish is formed by the villages of Foston on the Wolds and Brigham and the hamlet of Gembling.

Occupations included ten farmers, two wheelwrights, two blacksmiths, two grocers who were also drapers, a coal dealer, a corn miller who was also a coal dealer, a boot & shoemaker, a butcher, a tailor, a tanner, and the landlady of the Cross Keys public house.

[3] The village consists largely of a single road running in a north-east to south-west direction, with the buildings grouped on either side.

[6] The open fields around Foston were enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1780, and special provision was made for the miller.

Equipment also included two flour cylinders, four bolting mills, two corn-screens, a fan and a corn-drying kiln.

[11] Foston was also the scene of development work following the passing of the Beverley and Barmston Drainage Act in 1798.

There are various other early features, including a twelfth century tub font and an effigy of a knight which has been defaced.

It is an early nineteenth century brick structure, with a pantiled roof, consisting of two storeys and a basement.