Melton, East Riding of Yorkshire
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Melton is a small village in the civil parish of Welton,
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 ...
, England. It is situated about west of
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city centre near to the
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and about east of the village of Welton, with which it is nearly contiguous.


Modern geography

The village is bounded to the south by the
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, and is north of the Humber Estuary bank. The village is on the southern edge of the
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approximately above sea level, to the north-east 'Melton Hill' rises to a height of . The
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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.Ordnance Survey, 1:25000, 2006 In 2002–03 the village became part of the South Hunsley Ward of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and within the
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parliamentary constituency.
South Hunsley School South Hunsley School & Sixth Form College is a large secondary school and sixth form, situated in Melton, East Riding of Yorkshire, Melton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, near the A63 road, A63. In April 2010, the school became an Acad ...
is located on the western fringes of the village.


History

William Melton William Melton (died 5 April 1340) was the 43rd Archbishop of York (1317–1340). Life Melton was the son of Nicholas of Melton, and the brother of Henry de Melton, and John Melton. He was born in Melton in the parish of Welton, about ...
,
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(died 1340) is thought to have originated from Melton. The land around Melton was enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1771/3. By the beginning of the 19th century the village and environs became the dwelling place of several worthies of
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; including Benjamin Blaydes (1735–1805), and J. S. Williamson at Melton Hill. In 1823 the population was 107. ''Melton Grange'' was built around 1745, ''Melton Hill'' to the higher ground north-east of the village was established in the late 1700s, ''Melton House'' was constructed around 1830; a Roman burial was discovered near Melton House around 1840, including a gold brooch. In 1840 the
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opened, passing Melton about south of the village. In 1855 the land around Melton was essential rural, and used for agricultural use, with the exception of the gentrified houses and their gardens, some narrow plantations, and a small brick and tile works south of Melton Common in Melton Ings located on the bank of the
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. The brick work's workings continued to expand in the early 1900s and had acquired a tramway system within the clay pits. By the 1920s the tile works had closed, whilst a large scale cement industry had developed; to the north of Melton
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was extracted at ''Melton Bottom Quarry'', whilst south of the railway line the Humber Cement Works had been established west of Gibson Lane, the works was connected to the main railway, and served by a small railway halt '' Melton Halt''. The Humber Cement Works also operated an industrial tramway south to the Humber bank, and an
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connecting the plant to a jetty on the Humber bank at West Clough. South of the village worker's housing was constructed in the 1920s and 30s for the Humber Cement Works and for the Capper Pass tin smelter; the Capper Pass works was constructed in the 1930s for
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to the south of the Hull and Selby railway line and directly east of Humber Cement. The houses of Melton House and Melton Hill were demolished in the 1950s.
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opened in 1956, on the site of the 1840 ''Eastdale'', which was demolished in the late 1800s. Further houses were built in the village of Melton during the 1960s, at around the same time the scope of extraction of clay and chalk around Melton Bottom Quary was considerably expanded – the worked area expanded south and west, and the Humber Cement works clay extraction pits also expanded west into Welton Ings. The section of the
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passing south of Melton was opened in 1963. The cement works closed in 1981; a plant supplying
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for use in the
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was established on the site in 1990. The Capper Pass, Melton smelting works closed and was decommissioned in the early 1990s. It was a major employer in the wider area, but also a polluter due to the nature of the work it performed; the site was thought to be responsible for a
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gained planning permission to develop the 'Melton Park' site in 2006/7, in 2011 the company announced it was planning to use part of the development site for residential development. As of 2012 the quarry at Melton Bottom is owned by OMYA and produces chalk whiting. A southern working named ''Melton Bottom Chalk Pit'' is no longer worked, and is a
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(SSSI) due to its geological content. The working quarry is known as the ''Welton Wold Quarry''.


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