Snaith is a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Goole on the A1041 at its junction with the A645. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north of the M62 motorway, just south of the River Aire.The town of Snaith with the villages of East Cowick and West Cowick form the civil parish of Snaith and Cowick.The Snaith and Cowick civil parish had 3,579 inhabitants and 1,492 households in the 2011 UK census.