SKELTON is a township and village, 2 miles south-east from and in the parish of Howden, on the river Ouse; the Hull and Doncaster branch railway is carried over the river Ouse by an iron bridge of seven arches, with a swing opening worked by hydraulic machinery to allow of the passage of vessels. The tithe, amounting to £45, is impropriated. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Sand Hall is the seat of Robert Stanley Scholfield esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is alluvial deposit. The chief crops are oats, wheat, barley and potatoes. The area is 1,320 acres of land and inland water, 174 of tidal water and 54 of foreshore; rateable value, £2,842; the population in 1911 was 279.