Place:West Stamford Bridge with Scoreby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of both East Stamford Bridge and West Stamford Bridge with Scoreby parishes from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"STAMFORD-BRIDGE, a village, two townships, and a [registration] sub-district in Pocklington [registration] district, in [the East Riding of] Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Derwent, and on the York and Market-Weighton railway, 8 miles ENE of York; claims to have been the Roman Derventio; was the place where Harold, in 1066, defeated Harfarger and Tosti; and has a [railway] station, a post-office under York, and a fair on 1 Dec. The townships are East {Stamford]-Bridge and [West Stamford]-Bridge-with-Scoreby; and are in Catton parish. Acres: 680 and 1,891. Real property: £2,215 and £2,292. Population: 417 and 196. Houses: 85 and 31."

From 1894 until 1935, West Stamford Bridge with Scoreby was a civil parish in Escrick Rural District.

In 1935 the civil parish was abolished and the area split between the new Derwent Rural District which took Scoreby, and Pocklington Rural District in the East Riding which took West Stamford Bridge. Scoreby was then merged with another civil parish named Kexby under the name Kexby. West Stamford Bridge and East Stamford Bridge formed a new single civil parish named Stamford Bridge.

Changes after 1935 are recorded under Stamford Bridge and Kexby.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Scoreby. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Low Catton provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• British History Online has three articles on this area: an introductory one entitled Catton, followed by one on High and Low Catton and Stamford Bridge (discussing the area east of the Derwent), and on on Kexby, Scoreby and Stamford Bridge West (discussing the west side of the Derwent). Both of the latter articles described in great detail the terrain, and the local history including the ownership of manors and estates.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Stamford Bridge with Scoreby.
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to three maps of the East Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts).
• Ordnance Survey 1900 The rural districts, not long after their introduction.
• Ordnance Survey 1944. The rural districts after the revisions of 1935.