Welcome to Cridling Stubbs

Cridling Stubbs is a village and a civil parish in the Selby district, in the English county of North Yorkshire.

About our Village and Parish

Year of Foundation

Councillors

The village and civil parish is situated in Selby district, North Yorkshire, approx. 10 miles southwest to historic Selby town. The west boundary of Cridling Stubbs village is also the county boundary between West and North Yorkshire. Historically until 1974 the village was part of West Riding of Yorkshire. The village nearest neighbouring towns are Knottingley and Pontefract.
Cridling Stubbs village area covers 4.127 km2. Population of the village has slowly increased from 148 in 2001, to 152 in 2011 and reaching 165 in the most recent census taking place in 2021.

Name of The Village

Cridling is probably an old singular formation of a person’s name Cridela with –ing. It is mentioned in Yearly Yorkshire Charters which dates back to 1155-77 and other publications through centuries to become Cryd(e)lyng Stubes in Parish Register of Darrington of 1614 and Cridlinge Stubbes in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal from 1598. ‘Stubbs’ is a reference to tree stumps remaining after felling during the clearing of woodland.