The village is situated 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-west from the centre of the coastal town of Filey, and on the A1039 road.

[3] In 1823 Muston was a village and civil parish in the Wapentake of Dickering in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Occupations included fourteen farmers, two butchers, two carpenters, three grocers, a tanner, a bricklayer, a corn miller, a shoemaker, an earthenware dealer, a tailor, a blacksmith, and the landlady of The Cross Keys public house.

[7] Muston became part of the Scarborough district of the shire county of North Yorkshire upon local government reorganisation in 1974.

[9] The village cricket team, Muston CC, plays in the Derwent Valley 'A' league.