[1] It is situated 2 miles (3 km) south-west from Brigg, and just east from the A15 road, and south from the M180 motorway.

[2] The village is noted for the Nelthorpe family who owned the manor and lived at Scawby Hall.

[4] Sturton was formerly a separate hamlet a little to the south of Scawby, but development of the land between the two has incorporated the settlement into the main village.

[8] Scawby is mentioned seven times in the Domesday Book of 1086, as "Scallebi" or "Scalebi", with a total of 34 households.

It is built in the Early English style, but was substantially rebuilt in 1843 by William Adams Nicholson, and in 1870 by James Fowler of Louth.