The name "Oxton" means 'Ox farm/settlement',[3] and was recorded in the Domesday Book as "Ositone".[4] The lord of the manor in 1086 was Osbern D'Arques, who had received the manor of a 2 ploughlands area from the 1066 lord Alwin, and who was also tenant-in-chief to king William I. Also listed within Oxton is Ouston Farm, of 2 ploughlands and a meadow of 4 acres (1.6 hectares), which was under the lordship of Toki, son of Auti in 1066, and which passed to Fulco, son of Rainfrid in 1086 under William de Percy, the tenant-in-chief to William.[5][6] Within the parish is the deserted medieval village of Oulston.[7]
Oxton was formerly a township in the parish of Tadcaster,[8] and in 1866 became a civil parish in its own right.[9]
There are two Grade II listed buildings in Oxton, the mid-18th-century Oxton Grange, and the early 18th-century Oxton Hall.[10]
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