Anlaby Common is former

common land Common land is land owned by a person or collectively by a number of persons, over which other persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect Wood fuel, wood, or to cut turf for fuel. A person ...

, now an outer suburb of

Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea and south-east ...

. The area includes the residential areas which are located on the western urban fringe of Hull; the

B1231 road B roads are numbered routes in Great Britain of lesser importance than A roads. See the article Great Britain road numbering scheme The Great Britain road numbering scheme is a numbering scheme used to classify and identify all roads in Gr ...

(Hull Road/Springfield Way) passes through all of Anlaby Common's estates, east to west. As of 2011 the western part of the land is located in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Anlaby with Anlaby Common Anlaby with Anlaby Common is a civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The parish includes the village suburb of Anlaby and the part of the area known as Anlaby Common. Geography Anlaby with Anlaby Common is situated to the w ...

in the

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

; whilst the eastern part of the land is located in

Geography

Historically Anlaby Common was an area of agricultural land east of Anlaby; the historic 'Anlaby Common' area now includes several areas of housing, including areas known as East Ella, Anlaby Park, and Anlaby Common;Ordnance Survey 1:10560 1856 the historic Anlaby Common area includes land within both the

and the city of Hull.Ordnance Survey 1:25000 2006 The present urban development in the area is essentially contiguous with than of Hull, as of 2006 there is a some green space including playing fields separating the area and Anlaby village, though housing development along Anlaby Road is almost continuous. The area includes the churches of Anlaby Park Methodist Church and St Mark's Anglican parish church; these churches work closely together under the name "Common Ground". Anlaby Common is near the small suburb of

East Ella East Ella is a small suburb to the west of the Eastern England city of Kingston upon Hull. East Ella was an area of common land to the east of the nearby village of Anlaby and the west of Hull. History Like Anlaby Common, East Ella was once comm ...

History

In the 1850s Anlaby Common was enclosed land in open countryside to the east of the village of

Anlaby Anlaby is a village forming part of the western suburbs of Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Anlaby with Anlaby Common. History Anlaby is recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' as "U ...

. The area included a number of farms, and two large houses, ''Spring Villa'' (built 1840), and ''East Ella'' (built 1842). The Hull and Kirk Ella Trust road (later Anlaby Road) ran east west through the area; a northern border approximated to ''Derringham Dike''/''Spring Bank'' waterway and road, whilst to the south was ''Hessle common'' across fields. By the 1890s the Hull, Barnsley and West Riding Junction Railway (HB&WRJnc.Rlwy.) had been constructed, east–west, across the land (), and construction of terraced and court housing had taken place north-west of Spring Villa (''Ditmas Avenue'' etc.), on the north side of Anlaby Road. The HB&WRJnc.Rlwy built a locomotive works ( Springhead locomotive works), and sidings in the north-eastern part of the common. By 1910 the locomotive works and sidings had been considerably expanded, and by the mid 1920s the housing estate of ''Anlaby Park'' had been built (begun 1911 as a private development on the grounds of Spring Villa, as well as the Almhouses ''Lee's Rest Houses'';Ordnance Survey Sheet 240NW 1906-8, 1926 to the east, the former East Ella house had been redeveloped as part of the ''White City Pleasure Grounds'', with additional buildings including dance and concert halls. To the north of Lee's Rest Homes a second almshouse, ''Trinity House Almshouses'', was built 1938–40. A large fire destroyed the White City stadium in 1938. Remaining parts of the pleasure ground were demolished in 1945, and East Ella house in around 1951. Temporary housing was constructed on the grounds in the post

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

period (''Arcon Drive'', demolished and redeveloped 1977). Eastfield Primary School - geograph

In the mid 20th century housing development became more extensive, and became contiguous with the westward urban spread of Hull, as well as with the suburb of

Gipsyville Gipsyville is a western suburb of Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Gipsyville was established at the beginning of the 20th century as a housing and factory development and derives its name from a black lead prod ...

to the south-east, with building south of Anlaby Road in the East Ella area; on the north side of the road, north of Anlaby Park; as well as towards Anlaby village west of Anlaby Park.

Eastfield School Eastfield may refer to: United Kingdom England * Eastfield, Bristol, a location * Eastfield, Northumberland, a location * Eastfield, North Yorkshire * Eastfield, Peterborough in Cambridgeshire * Eastfield, South Yorkshire, a location *Eastfie ...

was established in East Ella south of Anlaby Road in 1930 as a 400 place junior and infants school, and expanded 1936 with 400 senior places; in 1945 it became Eastfield High School. A cinema was built on the corner of Calvert Lane and Spring Bank West in 1938, the ''Priory''. The cinema closed 1951, and was later used as shops. It is now a Heron Foods small supermarket. Further housing development took place on the western part of the area in the second half of the 20th century, with housing development extending south across Hessle common by the 1960s, with Sydney Smith High School built in fields westwards, and south of Anlaby. A high rise at ''Lindsey Place'' on the East Ella hall site was completed 1964. By the 1970s housing had further expanded and northwards over part of the site of the defunct railway sidings, with further development on former railway land in the 1980s and 1990s. The urban spread of Hull became essentially continuous to Anlaby by the 1970s north of Anlaby Road.Ordnance Survey 1:10560/10000 1968–9, 1971–80, 1983–9, 1994–5

References

Locations

Sources

* *

External links

Anlaby Park Methodist Church
{{East Yorkshire, state=collapsed Wards and districts of Kingston upon Hull Hamlets in the East Riding of Yorkshire Geographic histories of Kingston upon Hull