Skelton, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Skelton, a township in Howden parish, in the E.R. Yorkshire, 2 miles SSE of Howden station on the Hull and Barnsley and N. E. railways. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Howden. Acreage, 1317; population, 285. A railway viaduct crosses the Ouse here over a stream-way of more than 800 feet in width, was opened in 1869, comprises seven spans resting on cast-iron pillars, and includes a central swivel bridge, 250 feet long. There is a Wesleyan 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 | Howden | |
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 Skelton 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 Skelton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- 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: