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Scorborough Parish information from Bulmers' 1892.

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SCORBOROUGH:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1892.

Wapentake of Harthill - Petty Sessional Divison of North Hunsley Beacon - County Council Electoral Division of Etton - Poor Law Union, County Court District, and Rural Deanery of Beverley - Archdeaconry of the East Riding - Diocese of York.

This parish, which consists of a single township, comprises an area of 1,384 acres, belonging chiefly to Lord Hotham, who is also lord of the manor. Lord Leconfield has about 207 acres in the parish. The surface is generally level, and forms excellent grazing land for fattening stock. The other crops are wheat, oats, barley, and beans. The rateable value is £2,128, and the population in 1891 was 82.

The village is small but picturesquely seated in the valley of the Aike beck amidst a profusion of trees. It is distant about four-and-a-half miles north from Beverley, and two miles from Lockington Station, on the Hull and Scarborough branch of the North-Eastern railway. In the early part of the Saxon period this place belonged to Earl Addi, who erected a chapel here, which afterwards became the parish church. In Domesday Book the name is written Scogerbuth, from which we may infer that the place was colonized by a Norseman, who erected his buth (booth or hut) in the Skogr or wood. Subsequently the place came into the possession of the Hothams who erected a castle here, and, says Mr. Holderness, "the humble buth of the original name was supplanted by the aristocratic burg making the name Skogarburg, now Scorborough." The Hothams were seated here for several centuries, and during the Civil War, Sir John, governor of Hull, garrisoned his mansion here for the Parliamentary party. He was afterwards detected intriguing with the Royalists for the delivery of Hull, and made his escape, but was captured on his way to Scorborough, tried, and executed. His mansion was ravaged by the Roundheads and subsequently destroyed. Traces of the moat are still visible. Near the site is a modern mansion in the cottage style called Scorborough Hall, which was for many years the residence of James Hall, Esq., master of the Holderness foxhounds. The park contains about 34 acres.

The church of St. Leonard was rebuilt by the above gentleman in the Early English style, at a cost of upwards of £5,000, and consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1859. The designs were prepared by J. L. Pearson, Esq., architect, London. The edifice consists of chancel and nave under a continuous roof, and divided from each other by double columns of serpentine marble, south porch, and western tower with spire, containing a clock and three bells. The east window of three lights, by Clayton & Bell, is filled with stained glass representing the Annunciation, Adoration of the Shepherds, the Last Supper, The Crucifixion, the Entombment, and the Resurrection. Over the centre light Our Lord is represented seated in His glory. There are also stained-glass windows in the chancel to the memory of the wife and daughter of the founder, and to the two daughters of Samuel Hall, Esq., of Beverley. The floors are paved with encaustic tiles disposed in a beautiful pattern, and the roof is elaborately carved in oak. The seats, stalls, and furniture are also of the same material, the pulpit showing on its panels carved representations of four fathers of the early church, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. Gregory. In the churchyard is the mutilated figure of an ecclesiastic holding the chalice in his hand.

The living is a rectory with the vicarage of Leconfield annexed, net yearly value about £265, in the gift of Lord Leconfield, and held by the Rev. Edwin Watts, M.A., who resides at Leconfield. The tithe rent-charge is £306, and there are 32 acres of glebe.

The children attend the school at Leconfield.

[Description(s) from Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892)]

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