SCACKLETON is a small village and township in the parish of Hovingham, 2 miles south-west and 10 west from Malton. The church of St. George the Martyr was built on a site given by the Hon. William Henry Went worth-Fitzwilliam, at a cost of about £700, and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1888 at a cost of £200. The Hon. William Henry Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, of Wiganthorpe Hall, Terrington, is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is mixed; subsoil, blue limestone and clay. The chief crops are corn and potatoes. The population in 1911 was 146; the area is 1,353 acres; rateable value, £1,237.