The village is bounded to the south by the A63 road, and is 0.6 miles (1 km) north of the Humber Estuary bank.

The A63 road passes east–west directly south of Melton, and effectively divides the low-lying clays of the Humber foreshore from the chalk uphills of the Wolds.

[1] In 2002–03 the village became part of the South Hunsley Ward of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and within the Haltemprice and Howden parliamentary constituency.

[4] By the beginning of the 19th century the village and environs became the dwelling place of several worthies of Kingston upon Hull; including Benjamin Blaydes (1735–1805),[5] and J. S. Williamson at Melton Hill.

[9][note 1] In 1840 the Hull and Selby Railway opened, passing Melton about 0.6 miles (1 km) south of the village.

[10] By the 1920s the tile works had closed, whilst a large scale cement industry had developed; to the north of Melton chalk was extracted at Melton Bottom Quarry,[note 2] whilst south of the railway line the Humber Cement Works had been established west of Gibson Lane,[note 3] the works was connected to the main railway, and served by a small railway halt Melton Halt.

The cement works closed in 1981;[11] a plant supplying Calcium oxide for use in the plastics industry was established on the site in 1990.