DEIGHTON is a township and village in the parish of and 1 mile north from Escrick, and 5 miles south-east from York. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. The principal landowners are the Hon. Irene Constance Lawley and Hewley Mortimer Baines esq. of Bell Hall, Naburn, who is lord of the manor. The soil is clayey; the subsoil, clay, sand and gravel. The chief crops are wheat and potatoes. The area is 2,000 acres of land and 1 of water; rateable value, £3,460; the population in 1911 was 196.