Scalby, a village on the north edge of
Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to:
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,
North Yorkshire
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, England, is part of the
civil parish
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of
Newby and Scalby
Newby and Scalby is a civil parish in the Scarborough (borough), Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England, formed by the smaller southern area of Newby, Scarborough, Newby and the larger, northern, area of Scalby, North Yorkshire, Scalb ...
. From 1902 to 1974, Scalby was an
urban district
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in the
North Riding of Yorkshire
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.
Scalby is north of Scarborough,
and is separated from the town's suburbs by the
Scalby Beck, which flows to the North Sea at
Scalby Mills. Scalby is a village which is bisected by the
A171 Scarborough to Whitby road. The older part of the village is west of the main crossroads and is focused around a small but busy High Street.
History
The name Scalby derives from ''Scalli's Village'', Scalli being an old Scandinavian name.
Originally, Scalby had its own Urban District Council which was operational between 1902 and 1974 when Scalby came under Scarborough District Council. When the UDC was abolished, the Parish Council came into effect. Scalby belongs to the ward of Scalby,
Hackness
Hackness is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of the county of North Yorkshire, England. It lies within the North York Moors National Park. The parish population rose from 125 in the 2001 UK census to 221 in the 2011 UK cens ...
and
Staintondale, which the
2001 census records as having a population of 3,953 over an expanse of 10,186 hectares. Scalby has been twinned with the village of
Pornic
Pornic (; ''Pornizh'' in Breton, ''Port-Nitz'' in Gallo) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.
In 1973 the commune of Pornic absorbed the neighbouring municipalities of Sainte-Marie-sur-Mer and Clion-sur-Mer.
Populat ...
in north-west France, since 1989.
Geography
In modern times, as an artificial flood relief channel, much of the flow of the
River Derwent (which drains a large area of the
North York Moors
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into the
Vale of Pickering
The Vale of Pickering is a low-lying flat area of land in North Yorkshire, England. It is drained by the River Derwent. The landscape is rural with scattered villages and small market towns. It has been inhabited continuously from the Mesolithic ...
) has been diverted, (about upstream of
West Ayton
West Ayton is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough
district of North Yorkshire, England. Located upon the west bank of the River Derwent adjacent to East Ayton.
According to the 2011 UK census, West Ayton parish had a population of ...
and before it reaches the plain of the Vale of Pickering), into a new channel called the Sea Cut which runs east along a previously dry side valley (probably a glacial overflow channel) and into the existing Scalby Beck.
Landmarks
![Wrea Head Hall Hotel 1989](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Wrea_Head_Hall_Hotel_1989.jpg)
There are two pubs, a newsagent (replaced by a beauty salon in October 2013), village store, two restaurants and a local hair salon. The
parish church
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of Scalby is St Laurence's. The church is the oldest recorded building in the village. Records show its presentation in 1150 by Eustace Fitz John. The chancel arch and pillars are of that time and the first recorded priest, inducted in 1238, was Henry Devon. It is designated a Grade II* listed building. In addition there is Scalby
Methodist
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Chapel and the Church Rooms.
To the northwest is the Gothic
country house
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, Wrea Head Hall, built in 1881. It is named after the hill in the vicinity, Wrea Head Rigg,
and is set in 11 acres of woodland.
In the 1940s it was bequeathed to North Yorkshire County Council and was used as a college until it became a hotel in 1981.
In 2012 the hotel was purchased by Mark Giles, a former doctor and Hollywood marketer Gerry Aburrow, who initiated a six-year renovation of the house and its 21 bedrooms between 2012 and 2018, with Burlington of London fittings, Italian carrara marble, Duresta furniture and Wilton carpets.
Sport and leisure
The village is well served by sports facilities. Scalby Tennis Club is located to the east of the junction of the A171 and Station Road. The club has two floodlit courts and further use of two public courts adjacent to the private courts. Additionally there is the Scalby & Newby Lawn Bowling club which shares the site and the clubhouse. On a small hill behind the western limits of the village is the location of Scalby Cricket Club (Carr Lane playing fields which are held in trust by the Parish Council). During the winter months this doubles as a football pitch.
In January 2009,
Scarborough Rugby club moved from their old grounds in Newby to a new purpose-built club on the northern edge of Scalby, adjacent to the
A171.
The village has a number of
B&Bs and holiday cottages along with the prominent Wrea Head Country Hotel, built in 1881 as the family home of
John Ellis, MP and his wife
Maria
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and
Scalby Manor, built in 1885.
The Tabular Hills Walk starts at Scalby Mills and goes westwards tracing the southern extent of the North York Moors park and finishes in Helmsley.
Scalby hosts an annual fair in June which started in 1977 as part of Queen
Elizabeth II
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's
silver jubilee celebrations and continues to this day.
Transport
![Scalby Beck and the Old Scalby Mills](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Scalby_Beck_and_the_Old_Scalby_Mills.jpg)
Scalby has two A roads running through it (the A165 and the A171); both go south to Scarborough and both meet up just north of Scalby at Burniston and continue as the A171 road to Whitby and Teesside.
The A165 is further east in the parish passing through the Scalby Mills area.
Scalby has one railway station at Scalby Mills on the narrow gauge
North Bay Railway
Scarborough North Bay Railway (SNBR) is a ridable miniature railway (also known as a minimum-gauge railway) in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1931, to the gauge of , and runs for approximately between Peasholm Park an ...
. Services leave to
Peasholm Park
Peasholm Park is an oriental themed municipal park located in the seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1912 and became a venue for galas, displays and exhibitions. The park was extended to include Peasholm Glen, a ...
in Scarborough's North Bay. The village used to have a station on the now closed
Scarborough to Whitby Railway. The station at Scalby closed in 1953, some 12 years before the other stations (and the line itself) closed down as a result of the
Beeching Axe
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the ...
.
There is a regular (half hourly) bus service to and from Scarborough with many going on to Cloughton, Ravenscar and Whitby. Another bus service operates a circular pattern that links the village with the Sea Life Centre and the railway station in Scarborough.
Notable people
* Edward Charles Booth — Edwardian novelist whose books about the East Riding were compared to the
Wessex
la, Regnum Occidentalium Saxonum
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novels by
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...
.
*
Max Jaffa
Max Jaffa OBE (28 December 1911 – 30 July 1991) was a British light orchestral violinist and bandleader. He is best remembered as the leader of the Palm Court Orchestra and trio, with Jack Byfield (piano) and Reginald Kilbey (cello), which br ...
— musician and bandleader, at Argyll Lodge, High Street.
*
John Wilhelm Rowntree
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— confectionery manufacturer and Quaker religious activist and reformer
*
Edith Maud Ellis
Edith Maud Ellis was a Quaker and was actively involved in supporting conscientious objectors during World War I.
Early life
Edith Ellis and her identical twin sister Marian were born on 6 January 1878, the daughters of John Edward Ellis, ...
— Quaker and anti-war activist
*
John Ellis — Liberal politician
*
George Wilfred Proudfoot — Conservative politician
References
External links
Internal pictures of St. Laurence's ChurchScalby SchoolA History of Scalby
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Villages in North Yorkshire
Scarborough, North Yorkshire