SKIDBY, a parish in the Hunsley-Beacon division
of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the
county of YORK, 4 miles (S. by W.) from Beverley,
containing 313 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Cottingham, in the
archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese of York.
The church is dedicated to St. Michael. Eight children
are educated for the proceeds of £ 150, the gift of
John Marshall in 1803.