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Scalby, a village on the north edge of
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,
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, England, is part of the
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of Newby and Scalby. From 1902 to 1974, Scalby was an
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in the
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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 the UDC was abolished, the Parish Council came into effect. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the
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, it is now administered by the unitary
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. Scalby belongs to the ward of Scalby,
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and
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, 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
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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
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into the
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) has been diverted, (about upstream of
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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

There are two pubs, a newsagent, village store (replaced by a beauty salon in October 2013), two restaurants and a local hair salon. The
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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
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Chapel and the Church Rooms. To the northwest is the Gothic
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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
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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
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's silver jubilee celebrations and continues to this day.


Transport

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
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. Services leave to
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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
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. 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
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novels by
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. *
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 bro ...
— musician and bandleader, at Argyll Lodge, High Street. * John Wilhelm Rowntree — confectionery manufacturer and Quaker religious activist and reformer * Lawrence Rowntree – British soldier, only son of John Wilhelm Rowntree *
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, M ...
— Quaker and anti-war activist * John Ellis — Liberal politician * Maria Rowntree - wife of John Ellis * George Wilfred Proudfoot — Conservative politician


References


External links


Internal pictures of St. Laurence's ChurchScalby School

A History of Scalby
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