Place:Riccal Rural, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Riccal or Riccall Rural District (both spellings have been noted) was a rural district in the southwest of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1894 to 1935. It was formed in 1894 from that part of the Selby Rural Sanitary District which was in the East Riding. The remainder, located in the West Riding, went to form Selby Rural District.

Riccal Rural District originally covered by only three ecclesiastical or ancient parishes: Riccal, Skipwith and Hemingbrough. However, most of the ecclesiastical parishes were divided into two or more civil parishes in 1866. It is these civil parishes which are listed below. When the rural district was drawn up in the early 1890s, Hemingbrough village was placed in the neighbouring district of Howden, but its ecclesiastical parish continued to cover parts of both rural districts.

In 1935, under a County Review Order made under the Local Government Act 1929, the district was abolished, and most of the area became part of a new Derwent Rural District. Adjustments to the eastern border of the rural district meant that small parts went to Howden Rural District.

Humberside 1974-1996

In 1974 most of what had been the East Riding of Yorkshire was joined with the northern part of Lincolnshire to became a new English county named Humberside. The urban and rural districts of the former counties were abolished and Humberside was divided into non-metropolitan districts. The new organization did not meet with the pleasure of the local citizenry and Humberside was wound up in 1996. The area north of the River Humber was separated into two "unitary authorities"—Kingston upon Hull covering the former City of Hull and its closest environs, and the less urban section to the west and to the north which, once again, named itself the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The phrase "Yorkshire and the Humber" serves no purpose in WeRelate. It refers to one of a series of basically economic regions established in 1994 and abolished for most purposes in 2011. See the Wikipedia article entited "Regions of England").

Civil Parishes

The civil parishes in Riccal Rural District were as follows:

• Barlby
• Cliffe cum Lund
• Kelfield
• North Duffield
• Osgodby (near Selby)
• Riccal
• Skipwith
• South Duffield (merged with Cliffe cum Lund in 1935)

Research Tips

• A Vision of Britain through Time on Riccall Rural District. This section provides statistics on population and industry, as well as a listing of the civil parishes and the alterations to the municipal organization.
• A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps of the East Riding illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate individual farms.

• 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts).
• 1900 The rural districts, not long after their introduction.
• 1944. The rural districts after the revisions of 1935.