SKIRPENBECK, a parish partly in the wapentake of BUCKROSE, and partly in the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, East riding of the county of YORK, 10 miles (N. W. by N.) from Pocklington, containing 263 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £14.7.85., and in the patronage of the Crown.