Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Flocheton(e) 1086 DB

• Floctun(a), Floktun(a), Flokton(a) 12 Riev 1185–95 YCh 1189,1192 Pont Ric1 Ch 1252 YCh 1193–1211 Ass5 1331 YDviii 1319 MinAcct 1323 FF 1536

• Ovir Flokton(a), Over Flokton(a) 1338 YDviii 1356 YD 1639 Arm

• Nether Flokton(a), Nethir Flokton(a) 1342,1363,1386 YDv 1639 Arm

• Neder Flokton(a) 1477 YDviii

• Neyther Flokton(a) 1588 LS

• Neather Flokton(a) 1589 FF

• Floketon(a), Floketun 1145–60 YCh 1190–1204 13 YDiv,vi,viii 1201 FF 1220,Hy3 BM1248–51 1295 YDv 1297 LS 1339 YD

• Ouer Floketun, Over Floketun 13,1308 YDviii 1338 YDv

• Flocketon 1194,1298 BM

• Flocktun, Flockton 1150–70 YCh 1571 WillY 1583 PRThl 1607 FF

• Over Flockton, Nether Flockton 1607 FF

Etymology

'Flóki's farmstead', from the ON  pers.n. Flóki and tūn. But the earlier spellings without medial -e - may point to the first el. being OE  flocc 'company or troop of folk'; the sense 'flock (of animals)' is not, however, recorded before the thirteenth century (NED s.v.) and not at all in ON, and that would seem the obvious sense in such a p.n. The affixes are neoðera 'nether', uferra 'upper', but they are not now in use.