Place:Skidby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia Skidby is a small village and civil parish in the Yorkshire Wolds within the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) northwest of Kingston upon Hull city centre and 5 miles (8 km) south of Beverley. For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Skidby. The sections "Geography" and "History" are quite extensive. Skidby was originally a chapelry in the ecclesiastical parish of Cottingham in the wapentake of Harthill, but, according to A Vision of Britain through Time" became a civil parish "early". In the 19th century the parish of Skidby was known as Skidby-with-Skidby-Carr. The section known as Skidby Carr was amalgamated with Cottingham parish in 1879. The remainder of Skidby civil parish became part of Beverley Rural District in 1894 and remained as part of the district until its abolition in 1974. In 1935 it was enlarged by absorbing part of Swanland parish, part of Kirk Ella parish and the whole of Willerby (also formerly in Cottingham parish).

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").

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Skidby. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Skidby.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Skidby provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• GENUKI also provided a quotation from Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire of 1892 which was helpful in producing this article.
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to three maps of the East Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

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

• The "Relationships and Changes" section of the article on Skidby in A Vision of Britain through Time also provided information here.