| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 54.1143°N -0.4202°W |
| Label Position: | bottom |
| Official Name: | Octon |
| Civil Parish: | Thwing |
| Unitary England: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Lieutenancy England: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Constituency Westminster: | East Yorkshire |
| Post Town: | DRIFFIELD |
| Postcode District: | YO25 |
| Postcode Area: | YO |
| Dial Code: | 01262 |
| Os Grid Reference: | TA033698 |
| London Distance Mi: | 180 |
| London Direction: | S |
Octon is a hamlet and shrunken medieval village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Octon is recorded in the 11th-century Domesday Book as "Ocheton". The village contained a chapel dedicated to St. Michael (noted in 1327). After around 1400 no records exist relating to the chapel, and the village is thought likely to have been depopulated as a result of the Black Death.
By the 19th century the village was reduced to a small farming hamlet. In 1823 three farmers and a gamekeeper were recorded as resident in Octon, with a further two farmers at Octon Grange just over 1miles to the north. The extent of the hamlet remained unexpanded throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.[1]
The modern village is at the same location as the reduced medieval village; earthworks of the medieval church and village were scheduled as an ancient monument in 1994.[2] The 'Old farmhouse' at Glebe farm, Octon, a cruck framed longhouse dating from the 17th century is a Grade II* listed building.
Octon is located approximately 1.25miles west of Thwing in the civil parish of Thwing. It is situated in the Yorkshire Wolds at a height of over 330feet above sea level approximately 9.5miles west of Bridlington on the North Sea coast. The village includes a large house 'Octon Manor'.[3]