Silpho History
SILPHO is a township, 1 mile north. Capt. the Hon. F. Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone is lord of the manor and sole landowner. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel here. The area is 1,146 acres; rateable value, £632; the population in 1911 was 76.
— Kelly's Directory of the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire (1913)