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The whole parish is flat and low-lying without any prominent relief features. Much of it lies at more than 25 ft. above sea-level, but north-west of Skipwith village and south and east of North Duffield village large areas are lower still. Most of Skipwith township and much of North Duffield are composed of outwash sand and clay, with some alluvium beside the Derwent. (fn. 5) The small open fields of Skipwith, which were not inclosed until 1904, lay largely above 25 ft., but those of North Duffield, inclosed in 1814, (fn. 6) stretched far into the lower ground. There were extensive areas of old-inclosed assarts in both townships. Carrs and ings lay beside the Derwent, and the surviving common land in Skipwith continued into North Duffield until inclosure in 1814.
Skipwith village stands beside roads leading to Escrick and North Duffield which form part of the York-Howden road. Minor roads lead to Thorganby and Cliffe, but others running towards Selby and Riccall are in part only unsurfaced trackways on the common, and the Riccall road was blocked by the construction of Riccall airfield. From North Duffield village a minor road leads to Menthorpe and Hemingbrough, and others formerly led to South Duffield and Thorganby. The chief road in North Duffield, however, is that which now runs straight across the township, skirting the south end of the village, and forms part of the Selby to Market Weighton road. Until the late 18th century the road followed a circuitous course through the village. (fn. 20) It was turnpiked in 1793 and new sections were built to bypass the village and lead directly to the Derwent crossing; the old course from the Menthorpe road to the river has been lost. Several of the milestones erected by the trust still stand. The trust was discontinued in 1879. (fn. 21) The river crossing was also improved in 1793 by the building of a bridge to replace a ferry which had existed since at least the 13th century. (fn. 22) The bridge was owned not by the turnpike trust but by an independent company, and tolls continued to be collected at a house on the Duffield side of the river (fn. 23) until the bridge and toll rights were bought by the East Riding county council in 1936. (fn. 24) The stone bridge is of three arches with big round cutwaters, and the road approaches it on a causeway supported by seven brick arches.
The railway line from Selby to Market Weighton, opened in 1848, (fn. 25) crossed the south-east corner of North Duffield township, with a bridge over the Derwent; it was closed in 1965. (fn. 26) The line has been lifted but the bridge remains. The Derwent Valley Light Railway, opened in 1912, also crossed North Duffield, with a station near the boundary with Skipwith. It was closed for passengers in 1926 (fn. 27) and goods in 1965; (fn. 28) the line has been lifted but the station remained in 1973.
North Duffield is a large village, perhaps reflecting the success of the market and fair granted in the 13th century. (fn. 35) The closely built up main street is linked to a large green, partly surrounded by widely spaced houses. The green, with its pond, may have been laid out as a market-place and fair ground. It was reduced in size in 1814 by the inclosure of about 4 a. at the northern end. The main street is joined at both ends to a back lane, and a footpath called Priest Lane also runs between them. The village houses, dating from the 18th century onwards, include several 19th-century farm-houses, among them the Tudor-style Gothic Farm. In the 20th century several bungalows have been inserted around the green, a 'close' of private houses has been laid out off the main street, and 22 council houses and bungalows have been built, a dozen of them in the back lane. A village hall was opened in 1938. (fn. 36) Part of the pinfold wall stands by the roadside on the green.
By 1769 there were at least three outlying farmhouses in Skipwith, as well as the miller's house; (fn. 40) the farms were those known in 1973 as Bridge, Grange, and Peel Hall Farms, the last name deriving from Pithhill close, which adjoined the house in 1769. Another outlying house, in Hackings closes, mentioned in 1727 (fn. 41) had apparently been demolished by 1760. The house later called Charity Farm seems to have existed by 1772, perhaps even by 1711 when the farm was sold together with its house. (fn. 42) Outlying buildings at North Duffield in 1760 were the miller's house, the hall, (fn. 43) and farmhouses now called North Duffield Lodge and Blackwood House. (fn. 44) A terrace of cottages called New Houses stands beside the road built to bypass the village, and Blackwood Hall was put up in the mid 19th century. (fn. 45) At Park House the farm buildings include a wheelhouse. The remains of a small motte, called Giant Hill, stand by the river opposite Aughton village.
The manor was held by the Skipwiths (fn. 63) until 1709, when Mary, widow of Willoughby Skipwith, sold it to Francis Annesley; besides rents it comprised only a farm of 63 a. Francis, the Revd. Francis, and Arthur Annesley sold it in 1801 to Thomas Bradford (fn. 64) and he the following year to J. P. Toulson. (fn. 65) Thus it was that Toulson was described as lord of the manor in 1802, (fn. 66) before he became entitled to the rest of the old manorial estate.
The Skipwith family's manor-house probably stood on a large moated site which still existed, opposite the church, in 1973. It was presumably there that William Skipwith was allowed to have a portable altar in 1454. (fn. 88) The house appears to have survived until the 17th century, but in 1657 the manor-house or hall was described as 'prostrated and demolished'. (fn. 89) A cottage called Moat Hall stood there into the 20th century. (fn. 90) The site of the present house may have been occupied by the later 17th century. Richard Herbert had a house with seven hearths in 1672, (fn. 91) and a manor-house or hall-house was mentioned from at least 1705 onwards. (fn. 92) The service wing, in which there is a late-17th-century staircase, may have been part of this building. The main block of the house, facing south, appears to be of c. 1725 and is a plain three-storeyed building of red brick which retains its original staircase and some panelling and fire-places. Two-storeyed wings were added early in the 20th century, and there was some refitting at the time when the Forbes Adam family moved to Skipwith from Escrick. (fn. 93) One wall in the large walled gardens contains heating flues.
The medieval manor-house of the Salvains, mentioned in 1320, (fn. 121) presumably stood on the site now occupied by a farm-house known as North Duffield Hall, which still has prominent earthworks around it. This is traditionally the site of a 'castle', (fn. 122) presumably the fortified manor-house.
In 1086 an estate of a carucate in North Duffield belonged to Gilbert Tison, (fn. 141) but before 1100 he confirmed the gift of it to Selby abbey (Yorks. W.R.) by his man Swane. (fn. 142) Some small additional gifts were made to the abbey in the 13th century. (fn. 143) Under the abbot as overlord the carucate of land was held by Gerard Salvain in 1320. (fn. 144) Some of the land of the Selby fee may have belonged to freeholders; in 1286 freeholders with at least 18 bovates did homage to the Salvains. (fn. 145) The descent of these holdings has not been traced.
At North Duffield the Mortain estate had land for four ploughs in 1086. (fn. 206) There were several early references to the reclamation of new land: assarts included one in the wood of Duffield, others called Hirst and Pichel, (fn. 207) another, in the late 12th century, containing 13 a. at the hermitage, where there were also eight houses, (fn. 208) and Ketelisriding, in Northwood, which existed by 1219. (fn. 209) The same process is indicated by a holding which in 1258 contained 2 bovates made up of 28 a. of old arable land and 5 a. newly broken up; 4½ a. of meadow; pasture held in severalty which had formerly been meadow in the carr; and rights of turbary and common pasture. (fn. 210) The manorial park was mentioned as early as 1260 (fn. 211) and presumably lay near the hall, where a small group of closes was called Old park in 1760. (fn. 212) In the west of the township lay part of the woods and moor called Blackwood which extended into South Duffield and adjoined Skipwith moor; Blackwood was first referred to in the 13th century. (fn. 213) Immediately west of the village was an area of presumably wet ground called the Moss in 1258, (fn. 214) and still known as the Moses.
By 1663 the open-field land of the vicarial glebe lay in West, Far, Broke, Sand, and Birk fields and in Mill Ridding. Longland field was added to these names in 1685, and the name Mill Ridding was replaced by Hugh field in 1764. (fn. 224) Clay field is mentioned in 1778, (fn. 225) and by 1809 Clay and Gam Rudding fields had taken the places of Birk and Broke fields. (fn. 226) The fields which remained to be inclosed in 1814, (fn. 227) under an Act of 1809, (fn. 228) were thus West, Far, Gam Rudding, Sand, Clay, Hugh, and Longland fields. The award also dealt with the ings and the common, and made exchanges involving about 240 a. of old-inclosed land. The acreage of the areas inclosed cannot be ascertained because allotments were frequently from two different areas. In all, 1,106 a. were inclosed. The lords of the manor, William Scholfield, James Lister, and Robert Spofforth, the younger, were allotted 707 a., the vicar received 182 a. for tithes and glebe, and Robert Spofforth, the elder, got 348 a. for the rectorial tithes. There was one allotment of 50 a., two of 10-20 a., and six of under 10 a.
Accounts of an overseer of the poor for Skipwith township survive for 1747-1837. Income included rent from the 'poor land'. Payments were made in money and in kind, and poorhouses were first mentioned in 1783, when they were extensively repaired. (fn. 259) They may have been the four 'almshouses' that were maintained by the parish in 1743. (fn. 260) The 'town's houses' later stood beside the Cliffe road, and there were others at North Duffield at the north end of the green. (fn. 261) After 1820 Skipwith was a member of the Holme upon Spalding Moor union and made payments to the workhouse there. (fn. 262) Both villages joined Selby poor-law union in 1837, (fn. 263) and in 1855 six former poorhouses at North Duffield were sold by the union. (fn. 264) The parish became part of iccall rural district in 1894, Derwent rural district in 1935, (fn. 265) and the Selby district of North Yorkshire in 1974.
Two services were held each Sunday in 1743 and communion was celebrated six times a year, with 60 communicants the previous Easter. (fn. 303) There was only one weekly service and five celebrations a year in 1764. (fn. 304) By 1851 there were again two weekly services (fn. 305) and in the later 19th century communion was received six times a year by about twenty people. (fn. 306) By 1894 the schoolroom at North Duffield was licensed for a weekly service (fn. 307) and it continued to be so used until the 1930s. (fn. 308) In 1973 there was one service at the church every week, with two on alternate Sundays.
The church of ST. HELEN is built of coursed rubble and ashlar and has a chancel, aisled and clerestoried nave with south porch, and west tower. (fn. 309) It is of special interest in that there are two phases of development before the Conquest. (fn. 310) Of the first, perhaps of the 10th century, there still remain two units, a short nave and a square building of the same width which may have been a porch. Presumably the early church also had a chancel. In the 11th century a chamber was built over the porch to form a low western tower. This church seems to have sufficed until the late 12th century, when the side walls of the nave were broken through to form two-bayed arcades to new aisles, first on the north and then on the south side. Late in the 13th century the aisles were extended one bay to the east and this immediately preceded the erection of a new chancel of notable size and quality. The east window contains the arms of Anthony Bek, bishop of Durham (d. 1311). (fn. 311) A rood screen was put in during the 15th century and a belfry stage was added to the tower. In the earlier 16th century new windows were inserted into the old north aisle and the clerestorey.
The churchyard was extended in 1867 (fn. 324) and 1891. (fn. 325) Part of the churchyard wall has coping formed out of medieval grave slabs.
In 1764 there were two Methodist families in the parish (fn. 332) and in 1788 29 Methodists at 'Duffield'. (fn. 333) Houses were licensed for worship at Skipwith in 1764, 1796, and 1815, (fn. 334) and at North Duffield in 1794, 1817, and 1819. (fn. 335) A Primitive Methodist chapel was built at North Duffield in 1821, (fn. 336) near the south end of the main street, and was apparently used until the 1920s. (fn. 337) It was used as a dwellinghouse in 1973. A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built close by on the road from Selby to Market Weighton in 1833. (fn. 338) This small plain building was replaced in 1876 (fn. 339) by a larger chapel on an adjoining site, built of brick with stone dressings in the Gothic style. The vicar of Skipwith alleged that there were 300 or 400 Methodists at North Duffield in the 1860s. (fn. 340) The earlier building remained in 1973, when the later was still in use. At Skipwith a Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1868 (fn. 341) and was still used in 1973.
Frances, dowager Lady Howard, by will proved in 1716, bequeathed money to provide coal for Escrick and other villages, including Skipwith. (fn. 364) After 1862 Skipwith received 1/7 of the income.
1. This article was written in 1973.
2. P.N.E.R. Yorks. (E.P.N.S.), 263.
3. O.S. Map 6", Yorks. (1851 edn.). Most of the parish is covered by sheets 206 and 207, a small part by sheet 222.
7. See pp. 58, 62, 97.
8. Cal. Inq. Misc. i, p. 35.
9. E.R.R.O., DP/23, copy of map of 1760.
10. Cal. Inq. Misc. i, pp. 454-5.
11. L. D. Stamp and W. G. Hoskins, Common Lands of Eng. and Wales, 114.
12. L. & P. Hen. VIII, xi, p. 249.
13. E.R.R.O., DDFA/14/256 (undated sketch map of the common).
14. O.S. Map 6" (1851 edn.).
16. Ibid. I A. Skipwith.
17. Stamp and Hoskins, Common Lands, 114.
19. Yorks. Naturalists' Trust, Skipwith Common Nature Trail No. 1 and guide card.
20. See map on p. 92.
21. K. A. MacMahon, Roads and Turnpike Trusts in E. Yorks. (E. Yorks. Loc. Hist. Ser. xviii), 33, 70.
22. Selby Coucher Bk. ii (Y.A.S. Rec. Ser. xiii), 13. Other early references to it are in C 134/64 no. 12 (1320); Yorks. Fines, 1347-77, p. 115 (1367); Yorks. Deeds, v, p. 32 (1407).
23. Bulmer, Dir. E. Yorks. (1892), 713.
24. E.R.C.C. Mins. 1935-6, 368.
25. K. A. MacMahon, Beginnings of E. Yorks. Rlys. (E. Yorks. Loc. Hist. Ser. iii), 14.
26. Hull Daily Mail, 12 June 1965.
27. V.C.H. City of York, 479.
28. K. Hoole, Regional Hist. of Rlys. of Gt. Brit. iv (The North-East), 63.
29. See pp. 94, 99.
30. It has the inscription 'W 1908'.
33. Directories usually refer only to a beer retailer, but the house is named by Bulmer, Dir. E. Yorks. (1892), 713.
34. Kelly's Dir. N. & E.R. Yorks. (1925), 617.
40. Map of 1769 at Escrick Park Estate Office.
42. R.D.B., A/666/949; T. Jefferys, Map of Yorks. (1772).
44. E.R.R.O., DP/23; for Blackwood House see R.D.B., W/455/923.
46. E 179/202/58 m. 1.
47. T.E.R.A.S. xv. 52-3, 59.
49. B.I.H.R., Bp. V. 1764/Ret. 38; Herring's Visit. ii. 105.
50. V.C.H. Yorks. iii. 498; Census, 1911-71.
51. Ibid. For Menthorpe and Bowthorpe see above p. 63.
52. V.C.H. Yorks. ii. 277.
53. Yorks. Fines, John (Sur. Soc. xciv), 3.
54. Feud. Aids, vi. 35, 172, 224; Cal. Inq. p.m. x, p. 48.
55. Burton, Hist. Hemingbrough, 244; for the Skipwiths see below.
56. E. Y.C. ix, p. 74.
57. Complete Peerage, s.v. Kent; Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, p. 261; ix, p. 206; x, p. 48.
58. Yorks. Inq. Hen. IV-V, p. 130.
60. Feud. Aids, vi. 35, 173, 223; Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, p. 261; ix, p. 210.
61. E. Y.C. ix, pp. 136, 138.
62. Yorks. Inq. Hen. IV-V, p. 130.
63. Lines. Pedigrees, iii (Harl. Soc. lii), 895-6.
70. Ibid. DDFA/14/138, 262, 358.
81. Ex inf. Escrick Park Estate Office, 1972.
88. Cal. Papal Regs. x. 680.
90. Bulmer, Dir. E. Yorks. (1892), 711; O.S. Map 1/ 25,000, 44/63 (1947 edn.).
93. Yorks. Life, July-Sept. 1953, 113-14.
94. V.C.H. Yorks. ii. 224, 293.
95. Ibid. 224 n., 225.
97. C 134/64 no. 12.
98. C 139/102 no. 10.
99. Cur. Reg. R. i. 25.
100. Ibid. vi. 48, 309-10, 393.
101. Ibid. viii. 140, 300-1; x. 141, 235, 281; xi, pp. 46, 255, 397, 537; xii, pp. 109, 174.
102. Yorks. Fines, 1246-72, p. 29; D.N.B.
103. e.g. Feud. Aids, vi. 36, 224, 271.
104. Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 196, 219; Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, 435.
105. E.Y.C. xii, pp. 110-12.
106. Cal. Pat. 1485-94, 87.
107. E.Y.C. xii, p. 112; Yorks. Sta. Cha. Proc. iv (Y.A.S. Rec. Ser. lxx), 4-5.
108. C 142/153 no. 39; Visit. Yorks. 1584-5 and 1612, ed. J. Foster, 92.
109. Yorks. Fines, 1614-25, 13, 238.
111. C.P. 43/361 rot. 190.
112. E.R.R.O., Land Tax; DDFA/11/9.
114. E.R.R.O., Enrolment Bk. G, pp. 64 sqq.
118. R.D.B., KF/341/466; KL/54/78; 167/392/333.
119. Ibid. 225/321/269; /333/275; /335/276; /384/319; 226/53/45; /158/131; 228/575/499; 230/171/148; 238/ 253/216.
121. C 134/64 no. 12.
122. Sheahan and Whellan, Hist. York & E.R. ii. 629; O.S. Map 6" (1851 edn.).
124. Ibid. 937/56/51; 951/557/495; 952/416/371; 1349/ 244/220; see p. 114.
125. Feud. Aids, vi. 36, 173, 223; Cal. Close, 1435-41, 476; see above p. 93.
128. R.D.B., FH/375/395; FP/381/404; FS/45/50.
131. C.P. 25(1)/267/61 no. 45.
132. C.P. 25(1)/277/140 no. 22.
133. Yorks. Fines, ii. 18.
135. Yorks. Fines, 1614-25, 131.
136. R.D.B., BN/360/546; BU/479/728; FN/49/45; Burton, Hemingbrough, 239-40.
141. V.C.H. Yorks. ii. 272.
142. E.Y.C. xii, p. 47.
143. Selby Coucher Bk. ii. 8-11.
144. Cal. Inq. p.m. vi, p. 133.
145. Yorks. Deeds, v, p. 30.
146. Cal. Pat. 1553, 257-8.
147. Cart. Antiq. Rolls 11-20 (P.R.S. N.S. xxxiii), p. 189; Cur. Reg. R. vi. 310; Yorks. Fines, 1218-31, pp. 19-20; Yorks. Deeds, v, p. 29.
149. Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 302.
150. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v. 138.
151. Cal. Pat. 1566-9, p. 292.
157. C 94/3 f. 76.
161. C.P. 25(2)/982/6 Anne Mich. no. 6.
163. E.R.R.O., Enrolment Bk. G, pp. 64 sqq.
168. Ibid. KH/97/103; Bulmer, Dir. E. Yorks. (1892), 712.
170. Ibid. 1312/213/186; 1337/516/459; 1515/532/471; 1531/268/212.
171. B.I.H.R., TER. N. Skipwith 1764, 1786.
172. B.I.H.R., TA. 339S. The lessees of the tithes in the early 19th century were apparently the Fliggs: ibid. TER. N. Skipwith 1809 etc.
173. V.C.H. Yorks. ii. 277.
174. Yorks. Assize Rolls (Y.A.S. Rec. Ser. xliv), 52; Reg. Pal. Dunelm. iii (Rolls Ser.), 169.
175. Cal. Pat. 1307-13, 207.
180. Map in Escrick Park Estate Office.
183. R.D.B., A/75/107; map in Escrick Park Estate Office.
184. E.R.R.O., DDFA/45/10; map in Escrick Park Estate Office.
185. E.R.R.O., DDFA/14/98, 100, 125, 136-7.
187. R.D.B., A/666/949; see p. 100.
188. E.R.R.O., DDFA/41/31. For similar lists of payments see ibid. /32-3 and /14/193, 213, 216, 221, 224.
195. O.S. Map 6" (1851 edn.).
197. [1st] Land Util. Surv. Map, sheet 32; 2nd Land Util. Surv. Map, sheet 689 (SE 63-73).
201. E.R.R.O., QSF. Christ. 1722, C.15; DDFA/14/142.
202. Ibid. DDHA/12/1 (1536); DDFA/14/181, 276; R.D.B., A/75/107; Yorks. Fines, i. 318.
203. E.R.R.O., DDFA/14/210. See also map of 1769 in Escrick Park Estate Office.
204. O.S. Map 6" (1851 edn.).
206. V.C.H. Yorks. ii. 224.
207. Selby Coucher Bk. ii. 8, 10, 15.
208. Cart. Antiq. R. 189.
209. Yorks. Fines, 1218-31, p. 20; Yorks. Deeds, v, p. 29.
210. Yorks. Fines, 1246-72, p. 107.
211. Yorks. Assize R. 96-7.
213. Feodarium Prioratus Dunelm. (Sur. Soc. lviii), 292. See above pp. 62, 91.
214. Yorks. Fines, 1246-72, p. 107.
215. Selby Coucher Bk. ii. 12-14.
216. Yorks. Deeds, v, pp. 31-3.
217. C 134/64 no. 12.
218. Yorks. Deeds, v, p. 35.
222. Yorks. Sta. Cha. Proc. iv. 73.
224. B.I.H.R., TER. N. Skipwith 1663 etc.
225. E.R.R.O., QSF. Mich. 1778, B.1.
226. B.I.H.R., TER. N. Skipwith 1809.
227. E.R.R.O., Enrolment Bk. G, pp. 64 sqq.
228. 49 Geo. III, c. 83 (Local and Personal, not printed).
229. O.S. Map 6" (1851 edn.).
231. [1st] Land Util. Surv. Map, sheet 32; 2nd Land Util. Surv. Map, sheet 689 (SE 63-73).
235. Selby Coucher Bk. ii. 11.
236. Cal. Inq. Misc. ii, pp. 320-1; Public Works in Med. Law, ii (Selden Soc. xl), 276.
238. e.g. C.P. 43/642 rot. 146; Yorks. Fines, 1614-25, 109.
239. E.R.R.O., Enrolment Bk. G, pp. 65 sqq.
240. O.S. Map 6" (1851 and later edns.).
243. O.S. Map 6" (1851 edn.).
244. Selby Coucher Bk. ii. 14.
245. C 134/64 no. 12.
246. E.R.R.O., DDCC/133/101; Yorks. Deeds, v, p. 36.
248. E.R.R.O., DDTR/Box 7; O.S. Map 6" (1851 edn.).
249. H.O. 107/2351; Kelly's Dir. N. & E.R. Yorks. (1872), 546.
250. Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, 435.
253. Cal. Pat. 1555-7, 160-1.
254. Yorks. Fines, 1614-25, 109.
255. Yorks. Fairs and Mkts. (Thoresby Soc. xxxix), 175.
256. Sheahan and Whellan, Hist. York & E.R. ii. 629; Bulmer, Dir. E. Yorks. (1892), 712.
257. Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 219-20.
259. Penes Selby district council, 1975.
260. Herring's Visit, ii. 105.
261. O.S. Map 6" (1851 edn.).
263. 3rd Rep. Poor Law Com. 178.
266. V.C.H. Yorks. ii. 153.
267. Prior's Kitchen, Durham, D. & C. Muniments, 1. 1. Archiep. 7a.
268. V.C.H. Yorks. iii. 86.
270. Reg. Wickwane, pp. 229-30.
271. York Dioc. Regy., Order in Council 800.
273. Prior's Kitchen, D. & C. Muniments, 1. 1. Archiep. 19; E.Y.C. ii, p. 276.
274. e.g. Reg. Gray, p. 93; Reg. Greenfield, v, p. 148; Y.A.J. xxv. 209.
275. Cal. Pat. 1557-8, 420.
276. e.g. Inst. Bks.; Cal. Pat. 1569-72, p. 192; Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues, 968.
279. Valor Eccl. v. 137.
280. C 94/3 f. 76.
281. B.I.H.R., Bp. V. 1764/Ret. 38.
282. Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues, 968.
283. B.I.H.R., Bp. V. 1884/Ret.; Bp. V 1914/Ret.
284. Reg. Wickwane, pp. 230-1.
285. E.Y.C. ii, p. 272.
286. B.I.H.R., TER. N. Skipwith 1685, 1716, 1777.
289. E.R.R.O., Enrolment Bk. G, pp. 64 sqq.
291. Reg. Gray, p. 6.
292. Reg. Wickwane, p. 231.
293. B.I.H.R., TER. N. Skipwith 1727.
294. Ibid. MGA. 1864/5; Bulmer, Dir. E. Yorks. (1892), 712.
295. R.D.B., 1123/340/314; 1498/8/8; ex inf. the vicar, 1972.
296. Durham Annals and Documents (Sur. Soc. clv), 137.
297. Reg. Wickwane, p. 231.
298. C 66/1157 m. 16.
299. Cal. Pat. 1330-4, 401.
300. Valor Eccl. v. 137.
301. B.I.H.R., Bp. V. 1764/Ret. 38; V. 1865/Ret. 497; Herring's Visit. iii. 105.
302. Ex inf. the vicar, 1972.
303. Herring's Visit. iii. 106.
304. B.I.H.R., Bp. V. 1764/Ret. 38.
306. B.I.H.R., V. 1865/Ret. 497; V. 1868/Ret. 453; V. 1871/Ret. 459; V. 1877/Ret.; Bp. V. 1884/Ret.
307. Ibid. Bp. V. 1894/Ret.
309. See plate facing p. 81.
310. H. M. and Joan Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, ii. 550-4.
313. Ibid. PR. SKIP. 13.
315. Ibid. Fac. Bk. vi, pp. 158-60; Yorks. Gaz. 28 Apr. 1877.
316. Inventories of Ch. Goods, 81.
317. B.I.H.R., TER. N. Skipwith 1764.
318. Boulter, 'Ch. Bells', 32.
319. B.I.H.R., Fac. Bk. xi, p. 394; notice in church.
320. Yorks. Ch. Plate, i. 314-15.
321. B.I.H.R., TER. N. Skipwith 1764.
322. Ibid. Bp. C. & P. III.
324. Ibid. PR. SKIP. 13.
325. Bulmer, Dir. E. Yorks. (1892), 711.
326. Aveling, Post Reformation Catholicism, 64.
329. B.I.H.R., Bp. V. 1764/Ret. 38; Herring's Visit. iii. 105.
330. O.S. Map 6" (1851 edn.).
332. B.I.H.R., Bp. V. 1764/Ret. 38.
334. G.R.O. Worship Returns, Vol. v, nos. 219, 1249, 2873.
335. Ibid. nos. 943, 3039, 3329.
340. B.I.H.R., V. 1865/Ret. 497; V. 1868/Ret. 453.
342. 4th Rep. Com. Char. H.C. 312, pp. 381-3 (1820), v.
343. Herring's Visit. iii. 105.
344. E.R.R.O., DDFA/5/51; /13/9; /45/10; R.D.B., EM/ 65 /68; 4th Rep. Com. Char. 483-4.
345. 10th Rep. Com. Char. 672-3; Educ. of Poor Digest. 1093.
346. Educ. Enquiry Abstract, 1095.
348. Returns relating to Elem. Educ. 790.
349. Ed. 7/135 no. 162.
351. Bd. of Educ. List 21 (H.M.S.O.).
352. E.R. Educ. Cttee. Mins. 1956-7, 14, 210.
354. Ex inf. Messrs. Byron & Granger, York, 1974.
355. Educ. Enquiry Abstract, 1095.
356. Returns rel. Elem. Educ. 790.
358. Ed. 7/135 no. 125.
361. E.R. Educ. Cttee. Mins. 1955-6, 151.
362. Ex inf. Chief Educ. Officer, County Hall, Beverley, 1973.
363. 10th Rep. Com. Char. 672-3.
365. Char. Com. files; ex inf. Mr. G. Britain, Skipwith, 1974.

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