Skeffling (St. Helen)
SKEFFLING (St. Helen), a parish, in the union of Patrington, S. division of the wapentake of Holderness, E. riding of York, 4½ miles (S. E. by E.) from Patrington; containing 200 inhabitants. It comprises 1613a. 1r. 25p., of which 244 acres are meadow and pasture, and the remainder arable land: the soil is of a productive quality; the surface is level and uninteresting. The village is situated about half a mile from the Humber, and three miles from the sea. The living is a perpetual curacy, valued in the king's books at £5; income, £53; patron and impropriator, the Rev. H. T. Holme. The church is principally in the later English style. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.