Scargill History
SCARGILL is a township on the moors, about 3 miles west from the church. The rector of Barningham holds a service on alternate Sunday afternoons in the parochial schoolrooms, and the Wesleyans hold a service in the same place every Sunday evening and on alternate Sunday afternoons. Here are the ruins of an ancient castle. The township is the property of Major Walter George Raleigh Chichester-Constable, of Burton Constable, who is also lord of the manor. The area is 5,161 acres of land and 16 of water; rateable value, £2,715; the population in 1911 was 96.
— Kelly's Directory of the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire (1913)