SCALBY is a township, partly in the parish of Blacktoft and partly in the new ecclesiastical parish of Newport, three-quarters of a mile north-east from Staddlethorpe station and 7 miles east from Howden. The chief landowners are Robert P. Weddall and G. E. Weddall C.E. and Charles Kirkpatrick esqs. The soil is chiefly alluvial; the subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, mustard and potatoes. The area is 1,346 acres of land, 47 of tidal water and 15 of foreshore; rateable value, £2,929; the population in 1911 was 179.