Grimston is a civil parish about 8 miles from York, in North Yorkshire, England.

[1] The parish touches Bolton Percy, Kirkby Wharfe with North Milford, Oxton, Stutton with Hazlewood, Tadcaster and Towton.

[4] Grimston was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Mitune.

[7] James VI and I came to Grimston Park, the house of Sir Edward Stanhope, on 19 April 1603.

He knighted 11 men including Roger Aston and Charles Montagu.