A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire - For the year 1822, by Thomas Langdale

REIGHTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake, of Dickering;  (the seat of Arthur Strickland, Esq.) 2.5 miles from Hunmanby, 6.5 from Bridlington, 40 from York.  --Pop. 217.  The Church is a vicarage, in the deanery of Dickering, value, +9L. 10s.  p.r. !139L.  Patron, Sir Wm. Strickland, Bart.  It was formerly a chapel to Hunmanby, to which it still pays a small sum annually towards repairs, &c.

The Cowton Family and Cowton Lane

The Cowton family have historic links in the Reighton, Hunmanby and Bridlington areas (and elsewhere).  We do not know of any links between the family and Cowton Lane in Reighton.  It is reasonable to assume that Cowton Lane was named after the family Cowton.  Up until the 1960's it was described as "Cowton Lane - formerly Rotton/Rotten Row".