SKERNE, a parish in the Bainton-Beacon division
of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the
county of YORK, 2 miles (S. E. by S.) from Great
Driffield, containing 251 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of the
East riding, and diocese of York, endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty. R. Arkwright,
Esq. was patron in 1808.