Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SKIRLAUGH

SKIRLAUGH, a village, two townships, a chapelry, a sub-district, and a district, in E. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the Hull and Hornsea railway, 8½ miles NE by N of Hull; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Hull. The townships are North S. and South S.; and are separated from each other by Lambwith drain. Acres, 510 and 1,190. Real property, £3,068 and £2,319,-the former inclusive of Arnold. Pop., 323 and 364,-the former inclusive of 64 in the workhouse. Houses, 59 and 77. The manor of North S. belongs to R. Bethell, Esq.; and that of South S., to Sir T. A.Constable.—The chapelry includes the two townships, and extends beyond them; and is in Swine parish. Pop., 910. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £92. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church was restored in 1819. There are two Methodist chapels, an endowed school with £11 a year, and charities £51. Bishop Walter Skirlaw and the historian Bigland were natives of South S.—The sub-district contains Rise and Long-Riston parishes and ten townships of Swine. Acres, 18,364. Pop., 2,336. Houses, 453. The district comprehends also the sub-districts of Humbleton, Aldbrough, Hornsea, and Brandsburton; and comprises 67,028 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £4,407. Pop. in 1851, 9,279; in 1861, 9,654. Houses, 1,952. Marriages in 1863, 62; births, 312,-of which 45 were illegitimate; deaths, 222,-of which 77 were at ages under 5 years, and 7 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60,565; births, 3,083; deaths, 1,786. The places of worship, in 1851, were 20 of the Church of England, with 4,918 sittings; 3 of Independents, with 559 s.; 16 of Wesleyans, with 2,105 s.; 11 of Primitive Methodists, with 793 s.; 1 undefined, with 70 s.; and 2 of Roman Catholics, with 150 attendants. The schools were 24 public day schools, with 1,023 scholars; 18 private day-schools, with 310 s.; and 27 Sunday schools, with 1,058 s.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village, two townships, a chapelry, a sub-district, and a district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Skirlaugh Tn/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Skirlaugh

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