Skeeby
| Skeeby | |
| Yorkshire North Riding | |
|---|---|
 Skeeby | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NZ200025 |
| Location: | 54°25’5"N, 1°41’36"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 357 (2011) |
| Post town: | Richmond |
| Postcode: | DL10 |
| Dialling code: | 01748 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Richmondshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Richmond (Yorks) |
Skeeby is a village about eighteen miles north-west of the county town of Northallerton in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
The village is on the A6108 road, the main road between Richmond and Scotch Corner, linking with the A66 and the A1(M) motorway. The nearest settlements to Skeeby are Richmond, two and a half miles to the west and Gilling West three miles. A small beck flows through the village, as well as Gilling Beck which becomes Skeeby Beck and flows under Skeeby Bridge, as a consequence the main road and farmland surrounding Gilling Beck are prone to flooding.[1] Skeeby Beck flows into the River Swale just above Brompton-on-Swale.
Churches
The church, dedicated to St Agatha was built in 1840, being used as a second chapel of ease to the larger and older church of St Agatha, at nearby Easby Abbey. It served both as a church and a school, until the school moved across the road during Victorian times, into what is now a residential abode.[2] There was also a Wesleyan chapel, which has now also been converted into a residence.
History
Skeeby is recorded as Schirebi in the Domesday Book – the description being: "In Skeeby there are six carucates and there could be four ploughs there".[3] In other early references to the village it is known as Schireby in the 11th century, Scythebi and Scideby in the 12th century, Schideby, Skitteby and Skytheby[4] in the 13th and 14th centuries and finally Skeitby or Skeby in the 16th century.[5]
The origins of Skeeby Bridge, over Gilling Beck, date from the early 14th century, the existing structure being a 17th-century Grade II listed structure[6] that was widened by John Carr in 1781/2.[7] The earliest remaining buildings in the village date from the 17th and 18th centuries.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Skeeby: SKEEBY, a township in Easby parish, N. R. Yorkshire; 2½ miles ENE of Richmond. Acres, 770. Real property, £1,234. Pop., 180. Houses, 42.[8]
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References
- ↑ "Flooding in Middleton One Row and Skeeby". The Northern Echo. 24 September 2012. http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9946678.Region_on_flood_alert_as_storms_approach/. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
- ↑ "Church History". St Agatha at Skeeby. Parish of Easby with Skeeby, Brompton on Swale and Bolton on Swale. http://easbyparish.org/church-history-3.html. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
- ↑ Skeeby in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 424 ISBN 0198691033
- ↑ Speight, Harry (1897). Romantic Richmondshire (1 ed.). London: Elliot Stock. p. 69. OCLC 500106879. https://archive.org/details/romanticrichmon00speigoog.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1131550: Skeeby Bridge (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "The History of the Local Area: The Old Mill Centre". http://www.oldmillcentre.co.uk/the-history-of-the-local-area. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
- ↑ "History of Skeeby, in Richmondshire and North Riding | Map and description". http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/14219. Retrieved 10 April 2017.