YOULTON is a township and hamlet, 2 miles south-south-west from Alne railway station, in the parish of Alne, and in Easingwold union, and consists of four good farms and a few small tenements. Youlton Hall, occupied as a farm house by Messrs. Inchboard Brothers, is said to have been a halting-place of James I. in his journeys between London and Edinburgh: there is a chamber or recess in one of the chimneys of the house, evidently formed for the purpose of concealment. The manorial rights belong to University College, Oxford. The soil is very light sandy; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 803 acres; rateable value, £754; the population in 1911 was 35.