Skipwith
| Skipwith | |
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 St Helen's parish church |
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| Skipwith shown within North Yorkshire | |
| Population | 266 (2011 Census) |
| OS grid reference | SE6638 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Selby |
| Postcode district | YO8 |
| Dialling code | 01757 |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Skipwith |
Skipwith is a village and civil parish about 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Selby in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. Until the 1974 local government reorganisation Skipwith was part of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
There are Bronze Age tumuli on Skipwith Common. Iron Age remains include a set of tumuli and a triple-bank system that runs roughly north–south across the Common and links with a settlement visible as crop marks of hut circles and other features in fields next to the Common on the north side. The remains of a Romano-British enclosure on the northern part of Skipwith Common near the present village.
The Domesday Book records that by 1086 Robert de Stutville held a carucate of land at Skipwith. His family held a manor here until 1229, when it passed to Hugh Wake by his marriage to Joan de Stutville. In 1325 it passed to by his marriage to Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell. It remained with his heirs until 1418, a decade after their line became extinct with the death of Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent in 1408.
The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of Saint Helen are Saxon. The west tower began as a porch, but in the 11th century upper stages were added to turn it into a tower. The tower is linked with the nave by a characteristic Saxon plain Romanesque round arch, so the nave must also have originally been Saxon.
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