KEXBY is a small village and township, formed into a parish out of Catton, 11 Feb. 1853, and is on the banks of the navigable river Derwent, on the road from York to Market Weighton, 2 miles east from Dunnington station on the Derwent Valley light railway, and 6 east from York, in the Howdenshire division of the Riding, Ouse and Derwent wapentake and petty sessional division, York union and county court district, rural deanery of Pocklington, archdeaconry of the East Riding and diocese of York. The church of St. Paul is a building of stone in the Early English style, erected in 1852 by Paul, 1st Baron Wenlock, and consisting of chancel, nave and a small western spire, containing one bell: the east window is stained: there are 100 sittings. The register dates from the year 1853. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £144, including 39 acres of glebe, with residence, built in 1853, in the gift of Lord Wenlock, and held since 1907 by the Rev. George Casswell Holmes, of Durham University, who is also vicar of Wilbarfoss. The trustees of the 3rd Baron Wenlock (d. 1912) are lords of the manor and sole landowners. The soil is clay, loam and sandy; subsoil, clay and gravel The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and green crops of all kinds. The area is 1,881 acres of land and 11 of water; rateable value, £1,660; the population in 1911 was 130.

The children of this place attend the school at Wilberfoss.