[2] After the 1974 local government reorganisation Skipwith was in the Selby District of the shire county of North Yorkshire.

The Domesday Book records that by 1086 Robert de Stutville held a carucate of land at Skipwith.

[3] His family held a manor here until 1229, when it passed to Hugh Wake by his marriage to Joan de Stutville.

[3] It remained with his heirs until 1418,[3] a decade after their line became extinct with the death of Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent in 1408.

[4] In the 16th century, possibly after the English Reformation, a clerestory was added to the nave and new square-headed windows were inserted in the north aisle.

[4] In 1821–22 the Gothic Revival south porch was added,[6] and in 1877 the church was carefully restored under the direction of John Loughborough Pearson.

[8] Skipwith Hall is early in the 18th century house of seven bays and two and a half storeys,[4] flanked by a three-bay wing on each side.

[3] 0.5 miles (800 m) south-west of the village is the site of RAF Riccall, a training airfield that was a heavy bomber conversion unit in the Second World War.