 The village had a station (on the Selby and Market Weighton branch railway), and a Wesleyan chapel built in 1803 which was also used as a school for 41 children.Bulmer states that the village is called "Fulcathorpe" in the "Domesday Book" and that it was given by William I to his standard-bearer, Gilbert Tison.Later the village belonged to the Aikroyds, one of whom was buried in the chancel of Bubwith church in 1673.