SKIRLAUGH (SOUTH), a chapelry in that part
of the parish of SWINE which is in the middle division
of the wapentake of HOLDERNESS, East riding of the
county of YORK, 8 miles (N.N. E.) from Kingston upon
Hull, containing 211 inhabitants. Marmaduke Langdale,
about. 1609, bequeathed £200, directing the
interest to be applied for teaching and apprenticing
children, and other charitable purposes.