Scalby, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Scalby, a township in Blacktoft parish, E.R. Yorkshire, 6 miles E by N of Howden, and 1 mile from Staddlethorpe station on the N.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Blacktoft. Acreage, 1348 of land and 62 of tidal water and foreshore; population, 215. There is a school chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
| Civil parish | Blacktoft | |
| Poor Law union | Howden | |
| Riding | East | |
| Wapentake | Howdenshire |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Scalby from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the East Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Scalby are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following East Riding newspapers online: