KELFIELD is a township and village, in the parish of and 2 miles south from Stillingfleet and 9 from York, in Selby union, and is on the river Ouse, which here forms the boundary between the East and West Ridings, and is crossed by an iron bridge, connecting this place with Cawood in the West Riding. Tithe commuted at £320 goes to the Dean and Chapter of York and £143 belongs to the vicar. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. H. E. Preston esq. is lord of the manor and the chief landowner. The soil is clayey and sandy; the subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and potatoes. The area is 1,790 acres of land, 1 of water, 35 of tidal water and 9 of foreshore; rateable value, £2,904; the population in 1911 was 294.

Public Elementary School (mixed), for 104 children; average attendance, 56.