Skidby

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Skidby
Skidby is located in East Riding of Yorkshire
Skidby
Skidby
 Skidby shown within the East Riding of Yorkshire
Population 1,284 (2011 census)[1]
OS grid reference TA014336
Civil parish Skidby
Unitary authority East Riding of Yorkshire
Ceremonial county East Riding of Yorkshire
Region Yorkshire and the Humber
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town COTTINGHAM
Postcode district HU16
Dialling code 01482
Police Humberside
Fire Humberside
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament Haltemprice and Howden
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire

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Skidby is a small village and civil parish in Yorkshire Wolds of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of Hull city centre and 5 miles (8 km) south of Beverley.

The civil parish contains mainly agricultural land, both in the hills of the wolds as well as low lying land; also in the civil parish are the hamlets of Eppleworth and Raywell.

The village is the site of Skidby Windmill, a Grade II* listed building.[2]

Geography

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See also: Eppleworth and Raywell

The modern civil parish includes the village of Skidby and the hamlet of Eppleworth,[map 1] and Raywell.[map 2] Most of the parish lies west-south-west of the village in the Yorkshire Wolds, rising from approximately 50m above sea level at Skidby to approximately 100m on the western fringes. The A164 road forms part of the south-eastern boundary of the parish, on the edge of the Wolds.[3]

Part of the parish is to the east of the village and A164 beyond the Wolds, and north of Cottingham, extending as far as the Hull to Bridlington railway line at its easternmost extent, the land height drops to the east reaching a low of less than 10m near the railway line.[3] The part of the parish east of the A164 includes a gold course 'Skidby Lakes Golf course' and associated leisure club,[4][5][map 3] as well as a major (400/275 kV AC) electricity substation "Creyke Beck",[6][map 4][note 1] The remainder of the low lying area is agricultural.

The majority of the parish area is west of the A164, within the wolds: Hessle Golf Club is north of the Eppleworth to Raywell road (Westfield road),[7][map 5] There is a traveller's site at a former chalk quarry near Eppleworth;[8][map 6] and a waste composting facility near the former Albion Mill on the route of the former Hull and Barnsley line,[9][map 7] expanded to include an in-vessel composting facility in 2015, used to process organic waste from East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Hull City Council.[10] The remainder of the area is in agricultural use.

According to the 2011 UK census, Skidby parish had a population of 1,284,[1] a fall from the 2001 UK census figure of 1,369.[11]

Skidby village

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Skidby has a single main street, Main Street, running roughly east-west: the eastern end leads to Cottingham, making a crossroads with the former Hessle to Beverley turnpike before a roundabout junction with the A164 road. At the western end of the village Little Weighton Road leads roughly towards Little Weighton; to the south is Riplingham Road, also leading westward, currently (2006) a farm track and footpath.[3][12]

History

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St Michael's Church, Skidby

The village's name is thought mean dwelling (-bý) of a person called Skítr, ("Skyti's farm") the words are of Scandinavian origin.[13] An alternative origin meaning 'firewood place' (from skið and by), an origin from the person's name skiði has also been suggested.[14] Other alternatives are 'dirty place', from the old English scite.[13]

The village name 'Skidby' is first recorded by Oswald, Archbishop of York in the 10th century, as Scyteby: the bishop Oscytel was recorded as having acquired it for £20.[15] In the Doomsday Book it is referred to as Schitebi - at the time of the survey it was recorded together with 'Burtone' (near Bishop Burton): the land belonged to the manor of Beverley (in the hands of the church), with over 20 villains and 3 knights.[16]

The forms Skipbie,[13][17] and Skitby were in use in the 16th century,[18] in the 19th century 'Skitby' was a common form,[14][19] as was the current form Skidby.[20][21][note 2]

The church of St. Michael dates to 1777, with a tower built in 1827.[21] The church was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1968.[23] Weslyan and Baptist chapels were built in the early 1800s, and a school and teacher's house built in 1849.[21] A cornmill, Skidby Mill was constructed in 1821, raised in the 1870s and listed in 1952.[24]

By the 1850s the village population had reached 306;[21] in 1857 the ecclesiastical parish of Skidby became fully separated from Cottingham and received a resident clergyman.[20]

Around 1885 the Hull and Barnsley Railway was constructed (section closed 1960s), running north-east through the parish: no stations were constructed on the section near Skidby; at the point the railway crossed the Eppleworth valley a five arched brick viaduct was constructed, known locally as 'five arches', or as 'Eppleworth viaduct'.[25][map 8] [note 3] Northwest of the viaduct the line required a 83 ft (25 m) cutting, known as the Little Weighton Cutting.[note 3]

In 1972 120 acres (0.49 km2) of land north of the Eppleworth to Raywell road was acquired for the Hessle Golf Club, which was relocating due to the construction of the Humber Bridge; the nine hole course was opened in 1975.[29][map 5]

A traveller's site was established on Westfield Road in a disused chalk pit in the 1980s.[8][map 6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Creyke Beck is usually associated by address with Cottingham, not Skidby, being much closer and being accessible via Cottingham not Skidby
  2. ↑ The name of the town has also been confused with archaic forms of Skeeby, a place in Richmondshire, North Yorkshire.[22]
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The viaduct was completed in 1881,[26] demolished in the 1970s.[27] The Little Weighton cutting and adjacent quarries were used for landfill between 1970 and 2000s.[28] See main article Hull and Barnsley Railway for details.

References

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  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ordnance survey. 1:25000. 2006
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Sources

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Map locations

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  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., Raywell House
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., Skidby Lakes golf club
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., Creyke Beck electricity substation
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., Hessle Golf Club course
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., Traveller site, former Chalk pit, Westfield Road.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., Waste management site (composting)
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., Eppleworth viaduct (demolished)

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