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St Helen's parish church
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Population266 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid reference[[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] SE6638]
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSelby
Postcode districtYO8
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Skipwith is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Selby and 10 miles (16 km) south-east of York in North Yorkshire, England. It was historically in the East Riding of Yorkshire.[2] After the 1974 local government reorganisation Skipwith was in the Selby District of the shire county of North Yorkshire. In 2023 the district was abolished and North Yorkshire became a unitary authority.

The name Skipwith derives from the Old English scēpwīc meaning 'sheep trading settlement'. Wīc was later changed to the Old Norse viðr meaning 'wood'.[3]

Manor

The Domesday Book records that by 1086 Robert de Stutville held a carucate of land at Skipwith.[4] His family held a manor here until 1229, when it passed to Hugh Wake by his marriage to Joan de Stutville.[4] In 1325 it passed to Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent by his marriage to Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell.[4] It remained with his heirs until 1418,[4] a decade after their line became extinct with the death of Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent in 1408.[4]

Churches

Church of England

The oldest parts of St Helen's Church, Skipwith are Saxon. The west tower began as a porch, but in the 11th century upper stages were added to turn it into a tower.[5] The tower is linked with the nave by a characteristic Saxon plain Romanesque round arch,[5] so the nave must also have originally been Saxon. St Helen's parish is now part of a joint benefice with the parish of Bubwith with Ellerton and Aughton.[6]

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Wesleyan chapel of 1876, now the Methodist church

Methodist

Two families in Skipwith were Methodists by 1764.[4] The village's Methodists worshipped in each other's homes until 1833, when a Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built.[4] In the 1860s the Vicar of St Helen's claimed that 300 or 400 of the villagers were Methodists.[4] In 1876 the first chapel was replaced with a larger brick one next to the parish school.[4]

The chapel is now Skipwith Methodist Church.[4] It is a member of the Goole and Selby Methodist Circuit.[7]

Historic secular buildings

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The Drovers Arms gastropub

Skipwith Hall is an early 18th century house of seven bays and two and a half storeys,[5] flanked by a three-bay wing on each side.[8] It is now a Grade II* listed building.[9]

A school and schoolmaster's house built in 1714,[8] founded and endowed by the bequest of a Dorothy Wilson.[4][10] In the 1851 its pupils included 11 boarders, and in the 1860s a separate classroom for girls was added.[4] In 1871 the school had 54 pupils but in 1872 this fell to only 30.[4] From the 1900s to the 1930s the school averaged 30–40 pupils, but in 1938 this had declined to 26.[4] In 1957 the school was closed and its pupils were transferred to Thorganby.[4] Since 1959 the school has served as the village hall.[4]

0.5 miles (800 m) south-west of the village is the site of RAF Riccall, a training airfield that was a heavy bomber conversion unit in the Second World War. The site is now a national nature reserve known as Skipwith Common.[11]

Amenities

Skipwith has a public house, the Drovers Arms, which is now a gastropub.[12]

See also

References

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  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."History of Skipwith, in Selby and East Riding | Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Skipwith". Key to English Place-Names. The Institute for Name-Studies. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
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  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Archbishops' Council (2010). "St Helen, Skipwith". A Church Near You. Church of England. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Skipwith Methodist Church". Churches. Goole and Selby Circuit. 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
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  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harris, Richard (18 December 2009). "Former Skipwith Common RAF base is given reserve status". York Press. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Drovers Arms at Skipwith". Retrieved 27 October 2013.

Sources and further reading

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