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The Ancient Parish of SCALBY

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"SCALBY, a parish in the wapentake and liberty of Pickering Lythe; 3 miles N. W. of Scarborough. Here is a very ancient church, dedicated to St. Lawrence (see Churches for photograph), in the patronage of the Dean & Chapter of York, of which the Rev. Thomas Preston is vicar. Pop. 446.

Here is a small hospital for widows or widowers, containing four rooms or apartments, founded by one Christopher Kelde; but the time is not on record."

Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.

Burniston Cloughton Cloughton Newlands Comboots Newby Peak

Raven Hill Scalby Mills Staintondale Thorney Brow Throxenby

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
  • St. Laurence's Church, Scalby.
  • St. Mary's Church, Cloughton.
  • The ex-Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Cloughton, now a private dwelling.
  • St. Mark's Church, Newby.
  • St. John the Baptist's Church, Staintondale.
  • St. Hilda's Church, Ravenscar (view 1).
  • St. Hilda's Church, Ravenscar (view 2).
  • The Methodist Church, Scalby.
  • The Methodist Church, Burniston.
  • The Methodist Church, Staintondale.
  • The Quaker Friends Meeting House, Scarborough.
  • St. Luke's Church, Scalby road, Scarborough, view 1.
  • St. Luke's Church, Scalby road, Scarborough, view 2.
  • The Methodist Church, Wreyfield Drive, Barrowcliff.
  • The Northstead Methodist Church, Newby.
  • St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Newby, view 1.
  • St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Newby, view 2.
  • The Cemetery Chapel, Manor road, Scarborough.
• The following Churches have their own websites:
  • St. John the Baptist's Church, Staintondale
  • St. Hilda's Church, Ravenscar
  • The Methodist Church, Scalby
  • The Methodist Church, Burniston
  • The Methodist Church, Wreyfield Drive, Barrowcliff
  • The Northstead Methodist Church, Newby

Church Records

• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Cloughton.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Scalby.

Description and Travel

• Here are two photographs of the Ravenscar area:
  • Ravenscar village, showing the church to the right of centre.
  • The view from Ravenscar, looking over Robin Hood's Bay.

Directories

• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Baines's Directory of 1823.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in White's Directory of 1840.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Bulmers Directory of 1890.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in The Scarborough Gazette Directory of 1905.

Gazetteers

• There is further information about this parish from National Gazetteer 1868 Yorkshire extracts.
• There is further information about this parish from Bulmer's 1890 History and Directory of the North Riding.

History

• In 1874 the township of Cloughton (in this parish) became a parish in its own right. See Cloughton Parish.

Maps

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• For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
• For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
• Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
• View maps of Scalby and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Names (Geographical)

• The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
  • (TA021890) Barrowcliff

Societies

• This parish is covered by the following Society:
  • East Yorkshire FHS