LOW CATTON is a parish, township and village, pleasantly seated on the eastern bank of the navigable river Derwent, 1 ¼ miles south from Stamford Bridge station on the York, Market Weighton and Beverley section of the North Eastern railway, 8 west from Pocklington and about 8 east from York, in the Howdenshire division of the Riding, Wilton Beacon division of the wapentake of Harthill, Wilton Beacon petty sessional division, Pocklington union and county court district, rural deanery of Pocklington, archdeaconry of the East Riding and diocese of York. The church of All Saints is a building of stone, probably erected in the 13th century, and consists of chancel, nave, north transept, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 3 bells: arcades of four Pointed arches, supported by octagonal columns, divide the nave from the aisles: the font is circular, and there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1592. The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Stamford Bridge annexed, joint net yearly value £400, including 5 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Lord Leconfield, and held since 1905 by the Rev. John Charles Longe M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. The old rectory-house, on the north side of the churchyard, is now a farmhouse: the present rectory stands a little to the south-east of the church. The manor of Catton includes the Two Cattons, Stamford Bridge, Full Station, Newton-upon-Derwent and Wilberfoss, and was devised to Lord Leconfield by the late Earl of Egremont (d. 1845). Lord Leconfield is the principal landowner. The soil is loam and clay; subsoil, clay and sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley, potatoes, oats, beans and turnips. The township of Low Catton contains 1,330 acres of land and 16 of water; rateable value, £1,700; the population in 1911 was 131.

The townships of East and West Stamford Bridge, with Scoreby are comprised in this parish.

Public Elementary School (mixed), for 70 children; average attendance, 20.