![]() ^ "Flooding in Middleton One Row and Skeeby".^ "History of Skeeby, in Richmondshire and North Riding | Map and description".^ "The History of the Local Area | The Old Mill Centre".The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). The ethnic make-up was 97.5% White British, 0.6% British Asian and 0.8% each White Other. The religious constituency was made of 75.1% Christian, 0.8% Buddhist, 0.3% Muslim, 0.3% Other religions and the rest stating no religion or not stating at all. The 2011 UK census showed that the population was split 44.3% male to 55.7% female. Skeeby Beck flows into the River Swale just above Brompton-on-Swale.ĭemography Population 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. The nearest settlements to Skeeby are Richmond, 2.3 miles (3.7 km) to the west and Gilling West 2.8 miles (4.5 km). ![]() Skeeby is located on the A6108 road, the main road between Richmond and Scotch Corner, linking with the A66 and A1(M) motorway. It also lies within the Richmondshire North electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council and the Middleton Tyas ward of Richmondshire District Council. The village lies within the Richmond (Yorks) parliamentary constituency, which was represented from 1989 to 2015 by Conservative William Hague. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Skeeby: The earliest remaining buildings in the village date from the 17th and 18th centuries. 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 that was widened by John Carr in 1781/2. 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 in the 13th and 14th centuries and finally Skeitby or Skeby in the 16th century. Skeeby was recorded as Schirebi in the Domesday Book – the description being: "In Skeeby there are six carucates and there could be four ploughs there". The old Manor House, built between 1534-1699, was mentioned in Pevsner's Buildings Of England
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