ASSELBY is a village and township, 2 miles west from Howden. Asselby Island is in the river Ouse, in the West Riding and belongs to the parish of Drax. Eric de S. S. Rudd esq. J.P. of Knedlington Manor, is lord of the manor, principal landowner and impropriator of the tithe, amounting to £125. The soil is rich and loamy; subsoil, clayey. The chief crops are oats, wheat, barley, potatoes and turnips. The area is 980 acres of land and 21 of tidal water and 4 of foreshore; rateable value, £1,960; the population in 1911 was 205.

Wall Letter Box cleared at 9.25 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. No collection on Sundays. Howden, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office.