NORTH CLIFF, or CLIFFE, is a township, 2 ½ miles south from Market Weighton, in Pocklington union. The township was formerly in the parish of Sancton, but by an Order in Council, dated March 29, 1887, it was added to North Cave parish. The village, which is but small, lies at the foot of a range of abrupt hills or cliffs rising to the east of it. The trustees of the late Samuel Fox esq. are lords of the manor and the sole landowners. The soil naturally is a poor peaty sand, but the more enterprising of the farmers have converted it into a good loamy soil by marling, and the improved land now produces excellent crops of wheat, oats, barley, turnips, potatoes and mangold wurtzel. The area is 1,360 acres of land and 6 of water; rateable value, £1,233; the population in 1911 was 79.