Blaxton or Blakestone, West Riding

Description
Blaxton or Blakestone, a township and a village in Finningley parish, W.R. Yorkshire, 5 miles NE of Bawtry, which is the post town. Acreage, 1850; population, 168. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5