Scalby Beck

Sea Cut (Scalby Beck)
Scalby Beck (Sea Cut) meandering to its mouth at Scalby Mills
Location
CountryEngland
CountyNorth Yorkshire
Unitary authorityNorth Yorkshire
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationSuffield-cum-Everley
 • elevation41 m (135 ft)
MouthScalby Ness
 • location
Scalby Mills
 • elevation
0 m (0 ft)
Length5 mi (8.0 km)
Basin size32.126 km2 (12.404 sq mi)
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • leftNorth Back Drain, Church Beck, Cow Wath Beck
 • rightThroxenby Beck, Newby Beck
Sea Cut (Scalby Beck)
River Derwent
Weir Head, Everley
Mowthorp Road
North Back Drain
Throxenby Beck
Hackness Road
Church Beck
 A171  Scalby Road
Newby Bridge Weir
Newby Beck
Scarborough to Whitby
(now the Cinder Track)
High Mill
Cow Wath Beck
Scalby Bridge Mill
(now a Youth Hostel)
 A165  Burniston Road
Newby Bridge Mill
(actual location)
Low Mill
(now Old Scalby Mills Pub)
Cleveland Way Footbridge
North Sea

Scalby Beck, or the Sea Cut is a small river that enters the North Sea at Scalby Mills, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. The beck is fed from local streams in Scalby, Newby and Burniston and other watercourses draining off the nearby hills. It is also a bypass channel for the upper reaches of the River Derwent when it is under flood conditions.

Control of floodwaters and flood prevention is the responsibility of the Environment Agency as the Sea Cut is designated as a main river alongside the Derwent, the Hertford and the Esk rivers. The becks that flow into the Sea Cut and Scalby Beck are maintained by North Yorkshire Council.