This cemetery was consecrated for burials in the 1890s and was the third burial ground for the Church of England Sculcoates parishes. Other cemeteries used to bury Sculcoates parishioners were the St Mary Churchyard (closed in 1855) and the Sculcoates Sacristy Cemetery on the south side of Sculcoates Lane (opened in 1818). Part of Sculcoates Lane North Cemetery was set aside for use by the Sculcoates Union Workhouse and a few memorial stones from workhouse burials are still present. The Sculcoates Lane North Cemetery was closed to burials sometime after WW2 and had become overgrown and derelict. A local community group has done some work in recent years to remove the overgrowth.

The best place to find burial records for the Sculcoates Lane North Cemetery is likely Church of England parish registers deposited in the East Riding Archives (The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley HU17 9BQ). Burials from Sculcoates All Saints Church (from 1818), Sculcoates St Mary (from 1872) and Sculcoates St Paul (from 1846) registers likely took place in the Sculcoates Lane cemeteries. The All Saints and St Paul churches did not have a churchyard cemetery and the St Marys Churchyard cemetery was closed to burials in 1855.

A number of other churches were built for the Church of England Sculcoates parishes in the 19th century. Christ Church on Worship St opened 26 September 1822 but was demolished in 1962 after being heavily damaged by bombing in WW2. St Philip Church was built in 1882 at the corner of Charlotte Street and Paradise Row. It was established as its own parish, but the church was badly damaged by WW2 bombing and demolished in 1941. St Silas, (Barmston Street) was built in 1870 but closed in 1967 and the building demolished in 1968. Separate parish registers for these churches have been deposited in the East Riding Archives but they do not appear to contain burial information.

The East Yorkshire Family History Society (Carnegie Heritage Centre, 342 Anlaby Road, Kingston upon Hull, HU3 6JA) also has a listing of the monument inscriptions for Sculcoates parish.