SOUTH CLIFF, or CLIFFE, is a township and chapelry 2 ½ miles north-by-west and 3 ½ south from Market Weighton, in the parish of North Cave, Holme Beacon division of Harthill wapentake and Pocklington union. The small chapel of ease here to the church of North Cave was rebuilt by the late Samuel Pot esq. and will sent 120 persons; divine services are held on Sundays at 2.30 p.m. The trustees of the late Charles Langdale esq. (d. 1895) are lords of the manor and chief landowners. The soils are a light blowing sand and some clay, and both of them have been greatly improved by mixing, although about 100 acres are still rabbit warren. The chief crops are wheat, turnips and barley. The area is 2,127 acres of land and a of water; rateable value, £1,515; the population in 1911 was 108.

Cave Common, 1 mile west; Dryham, three-quarters of a mile west; Jarratt Hills, 1 mile south; Rudstone Walk, 1 ½ miles north-east; Now or Never, Cliffe Dales and Duck Nest, are places here.

Public Elementary School (mixed), for 49 children; average attendance, 22.