Scriven is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the town of Knaresborough.

The name Scriven originally meant "Hollow-place" with pits and could have referred to the quarrying that occurred nearby.

[2] Tentergate however contains the derivative "gate", which is the Scandinavian translation for street, and was the place where cloth was stretched for drying.

[4] Scriven was one of eleven berewicks in 1086 of the Knaresborough manor and remains close to the town.

As society changed throughout time there became a shift in industry with most economically active residents in Scriven working in the wholesale and retail trade.

The graph supports the fact that there was the boundary change in 1894 resulting in Tentergate becoming a new civil parish.

[10] In 2012 Scriven made the news again, after a 200-year-old oak tree in Jacob Smith Park had fallen revealing a nest of 6,000 honeybees.

Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and supported by the Arts and Museum Department of Harrogate Borough Council the project began in 2008 researching and documenting the local history, archaeology and landscape of the Scriven area and all the findings shout be documented by the end of 2013.