 The village is bounded to the south by the A63 road, and is north of the Humber Estuary bank.The village is on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Wolds approximately above sea level, to the north-east 'Melton Hill' rises to a height of .The A63 road passes east-west directly south of Melton, and effectively divides the low-lying clays of the Humber foreshore from the chalk uphills of the Wolds.