Scalby Yorkshire Family History Guide

Scalby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Cloughton is a chapelry of Scalby.

Other places in the parish include: Throxenby, Staintondale, Stainton Dale, Newby, and Burniston.

Alternative names: Scalby near Scarborough

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1556
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SCALBY, a village, a township, and a parish, in Scarborough district, N. R. Yorkshire.

The village stands on a brook of its own name, 3 miles N W of Scarborough r. station; and has a post-office under Scarborough.

The township extends to the coast, and comprises 2, 130 acres of land and 300 of water. Real property, with Newby, £6, 246. Pop., of S. alone, 643. Houses, 123.

The parish contains also the townships of Newby, Throxenby, Burniston, Cloughton, and Stainton-Dale; and comprises 11, 935 acres. Pop., 1,876. Houses, 393. The property is much subdivided. S. brook traverses a pleasant glen to the sea; and S.-Mill, on thebrook below the village, has tea gardens, and is a resort of summer visitors from Scarborough.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £302. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Norwich The church is ancient.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, an alms-house hospital with £13 a year, and other charities £12. Monpesson was vicar.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

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Administration

County: Yorkshire
Civil Registration District: Scarborough
Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
Diocese: York
Rural Deanery: Dickering
Poor Law Union: Scarborough
Hundred: Pickering Lythe
Province: York