WEST STAMFORD BRIDGE with SCOREBY form a township, separated from East Stamford Bridge by the river Derwent, over which there is a bridge of two arches, and is 8 miles north-east from York, and is in the parish of Catton, wapentake and petty sessional division of Ouse and Derwent, York union and county court district. There is no church, the inhabitants attending that at East Stamford Bridge. The tithe, amounting to £4 10s. goes to the rector Of Catton. E. A. Herbert esq. of Upper Helmsley Hall, is lord of the manor and principal landowner in the West Stamford Bridge district, and Sir R. J. M Walker bart. sole landowner of Scoreby. The Soil is mixed; subsoil, sand. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The area, 1,932 acres of land and 14 of water; rateable value, £3,246; the population in 1911 was 138.

Scoreby consists of several farms.

The children of this place attend the schools at Gate Helmsley & Dunnington.