Skidby is a small village and

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of the

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, England. It is situated about north-west of

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city centre, west of Cottingham and south of

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. The civil parish contains mainly agricultural land, both in the hills of the wolds and the low-lying land. The civil parish also includes the hamlets of

Eppleworth Eppleworth is a Hamlet (place), hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated on Westfields Road and lies to the south of Skidby and to the west of Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, Cottingham. Further west along Westfie ...

and Raywell. The village is the site of Skidby Windmill, a Grade II*

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Geography

The modern civil parish includes the village of Skidby and the

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,, Eppleworth and Raywell., Raywell House Most of the parish lies west-south-west of the village in the

, rising from about above sea level at Skidby to about on the western fringes. The

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forms part of the south-eastern boundary of the parish, on the edge of the Wolds. Skidby Working Windmill 1

Part of the parish is to the east of the village and A164 beyond the Wolds, and north of Cottingham, extending as far as the Hull to Bridlington railway line at its easternmost extent, the land height drops to the east reaching a low of less than near the railway line.Ordnance survey. 1:25000. 2006 The part of the parish east of the A164 includes a golf course 'Skidby Lakes Golf course' and associated leisure club,, Skidby Lakes Golf Club as well as a major (400/275 kV AC) electricity substation " Creyke Beck",, Creyke Beck electricity substationCreyke Beck is usually associated by address with Cottingham, not Skidby, being much closer and being accessible via Cottingham not Skidby The remainder of the low-lying area is agricultural. Most of the parish area is west of the A164, within the wolds: Hessle Golf Club is north of the Eppleworth to Raywell road (Westfield Road), There is a traveller's site at a former chalk quarry near Eppleworth;Sources: * *, Traveller site, former Chalk pit, Westfield Road. and a waste composting facility near the former Albion Mill on the route of the former Hull and Barnsley line,, Waste management site (composting) expanded to include an

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facility in 2015, used to process organic waste from

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and

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. The remainder of the area is in agricultural use. In the

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, Skidby parish had a population of 1,284, a fall from the

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figure of 1,369.

Skidby village

Skidby has a single main street, ''Main Street'', running roughly east–west: the eastern end leads to Cottingham, making a crossroads with the former Hessle to Beverley turnpike before a roundabout junction with the A164 road. At the western end of the village ''Little Weighton Road'' leads roughly towards

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; to the south is ''Riplingham Road'', also leading westward, currently (2006) a farm track and footpath.

History

The village's name is thought mean dwelling (''-bý'') of a person called ''Skítr'', ("Skyti's farm") the words are of Scandinavian origin.Sources: * * An alternative origin meaning 'firewood place' (from ''skið'' and ''by''), an origin from the person's name ''skiði'' has also been suggested. Other alternatives are 'dirty place', from the

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''scite''. The village name 'Skidby' is first recorded by Oswald, Archbishop of York in the 10th century, as ''Scyteby'': the bishop

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was recorded as having acquired it for £20. In

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it is referred to as ''Schitebi'' – at the time of the survey it was recorded together with 'Burtone' (near

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): the land belonged to the manor of

(in the hands of the church), with over 20

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s and 3

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s. The forms ''Skipbie'', and ''Skitby'' were in use in the 16th century, in the 19th century 'Skitby' was a common form, as was the current form Skidby. The church of St Michael dates to 1777, with a tower built in 1827. The church was designated a Grade II*

in 1968.

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and

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chapels were built in the early 1800s, and a school and teacher's house built in 1849. A cornmill, Skidby Mill was constructed in 1821, raised in the 1870s and listed in 1952. By the 1850s the village population had reached 306; in 1857 the ecclesiastical parish of Skidby became fully separated from Cottingham and received a resident clergyman. Around 1885 the

Hull and Barnsley Railway The Hull Barnsley & West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Company (HB&WRJR&DCo.) was opened on 20 July 1885. It had a total projected length of but never reached Barnsley, stopping a few miles short at Stairfoot. The name was changed to The ...

was constructed (section closed 1960s), running north-east through the parish: no stations were constructed on the section near Skidby; at the point the railway crossed the Eppleworth valley a five arched brick viaduct was constructed, known locally as 'five arches', or as 'Eppleworth viaduct'., Eppleworth viaduct (demolished) North-west of the viaduct the line required an cutting, known as the ''Little Weighton Cutting''. In 1972, of land north of the Eppleworth to Raywell road was acquired for the Hessle Golf Club, which was relocating due to the construction of the

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; the eighteen-hole course was opened in 1975., Hessle Golf Club course A traveller's site was established on Westfield Road in a disused chalk pit in the 1980s.

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