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Willerby is a village and
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located on the western outskirts of the city 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 ...
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 ...
, England. Willerby was a minor settlement up to the 20th century, during which it became a suburb of Kingston upon Hull, and its urban development extended south-eastwards towards Hull. The village centre is located about west of
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city centre and lies outside the city boundary.


History

Until the 20th century Willerby was a small village. Enclosure of land around Willerby was enabled by acts of parliament in 1796 and 1824. In 1844 the population of the township of Willerby was 214 persons, in 45 houses. By the 1850s Willerby had a
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chapel (built 1850), a Hall, ''Oak Hill House'',Ordnance Survey, Sheet 225, 6" to 1 mile (1:10560), 1855 dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, now known as ''Willerby Hall'', and another large dwelling, the ''Summer House'', later known as ''The Beeches'' dating to the 18th century, and extended in the 1820s and 1850s. as well as smaller dwellings along Main Street, the village's original main road. A mental asylum, ''Hull Borough Lunatic Asylum'', later known as
De la Pole Hospital De la Pole Hospital was a mental health facility in Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. History The hospital was located on a site previously occupied by De la Pole Farm. It was designed by Frederick Stead Brodrick and Richard George Smi ...
, and an associated chapel, was constructed beyond the village to the north in the 1880s.
Willerby and Kirk Ella railway station Willerby and Kirk Ella railway station was a station on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, and served the villages of Willerby and Kirk Ella in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. ...
opened in 1885 as part of the
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which passed the main village close by on the southern edge. By 1890 two further substantial houses had been built; ''Manor House'' (later Willerby Manor), and ''the Grange'', north of the village.Ordnance Survey, Sheet 225SE, 6" to 1 mile, 1891 A new Methodist chapel and schoolroom were constructed between 1897 and 1900. Small scale growth of housing started in the 20th century, with suburban developments eastward towards Hull along Kingston Road and Carr Lane well developed by the mid 20th century. The
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manufacturing company ''Yorkshire Apiary Company'' based in Willerby was commissioned to produce temporary buildings in the aftermath of the
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; the company, ''Willerby Caravan Company Ltd.'', (founded 1944, since 1996 Willerby Holiday Homes) was located on Main Street, the company later relocated to Hedon Road, Kingston upon Hull., Willerby Caravan Company, former site In 1959 Willerby and Kirk Ella station closed, the line closed completely in 1964, and the station was demolished in 1968, and the site used for a housing development. Part of the route of the line was used (1970) to construct the B1232 forming a bypass for the A164 (Beverley) road, bypassing Willerby village. ''Willerby Carr Lane County Primary School'' was established in the 1930s. In 1960 ''Willerby County Secondary School'' (now the lower school of
Wolfreton School Wolfreton School & Sixth Form College is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. In 2017, the most recent results available, 74% of pupils at Wolfreton School and Sixth Form Co ...
) was officially opened, though construction and extension continued through the 1960s and early 1970s.Sources: * *Ordnance Survey. 1:10560. 1968. A third Methodist chapel, and the
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church of St Luke, were also constructed in the late 1960s. By the late 1960s urban development west of the traditional village centre, in the land between Carr Lane and the Hull and Barnsley railway line had reached modern (2012) levels, with the village now an effective suburb of Hull, separated by the green space of Springhead Golf Course. Further development of housing estates took place in the latter part of the 20th century, north of Carr Lane. The Wolfreton school and six form college was demolished and rebuilt at the Willerby site as a three-storey building beginning 2015. The former upper school Kirk-Ella school was made surplus to requirements by the rebuild. (The new school opened in September 2016.) Between 2014 and 2015 a flood alleviation scheme, the ''Willerby and Derringham Bank Flood Alleviation Scheme'', was constructed in the parish, built in response to the
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. The scheme consisted of upgrades to the drainage system (Phase 1), and four storage lagoons (Phase 2). Three storage lagoons with total capacity of around were constructed near the A164 at Willerby,One wholly outside the parish and two partially outside the parish, but all adjacent to the developed area of Willerby. and a fourth south-east of
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on the eastern edge of the parish. The total cost of the scheme was over £10 million. In 2015 planning permission was given for 130 homes west of Great Gutter Lane, work on the development, "West Hill", started in August 2016.


Wolfreton

Wolfreton was a small hamlet approximately a third of a mile north of the old village centre 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 ...
, on Wolfreton Road connecting Anlaby to Willerby Carr Lane (now Carr Lane). In the
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it was mentioned as ''Uluardune''. In the 1850s it consisted only of few buildings including an Inn, the ''Springhead Inn'',Ordnance Survey Sheet 239 1:10560 1852 there was also a farm "Wolfreton farm" at the junction of Wolfreton Road with Willerby Carr Lane. By the beginning of the 20th century the
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had been built just south of the hamlet, which had expanded with a short row of terraced housing - Wolfreton Lane crossed under the railway line,Ordnance Survey Sheet 239NE 1908 1:10560 and a new larger Springhead Inn had been built to the north of the original. By 1926 additional terraced housing had been built ''Wolfreton Villas'', as well as housing along the section of Wolfreton Road to Anlaby.
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was built in the 1920s near to the crossing of Wolfreton Lane by the railway. Housing development off the new (1920s) Kingston Road between Hull and Willerby began to encroach on the hamlet by the middle of the 20th century. As of 2006 Wolfreton continues to be marked as a place on
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Willerby Hill

Willerby Hill is a small suburb just outside of Willerby. It is home to Willerby Hill Farm, cafe and horse riding stables. Total Fitness is there too along with swimming pools, gyms etc. Primarily, Willerby Hill is the boundary between Willerby and Cottingham and is mainly fields.


Governance

Willerby is situated within the safe Conservative Parliamentary Constituency of
Haltemprice and Howden Haltemprice and Howden is a constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by David Davis, a Conservative who was also Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union until h ...
; the Haltemprice and Howden Conservative party branch is based in Willerby, on Main Street. The village lies within the
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electoral ward of 'Willerby and Kirk Ella'. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 13,578.


Geography

The village of Willerby forms an outermost western suburb of Hull, separated by non-agricultural green space including allotments, playing fields, and Springhead Park Golf Club.Ordnance Survey, 1:25000, 2006 In the second half of the 20th century urban development became contiguous between the villages of Willerby,
Kirk Ella Kirk Ella is a village and civil parish on the western outskirts of Kingston upon Hull, approximately west of the city centre, situated in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The parish includes West Ella. Kirk Ella has been a village since ...
to the south and Anlaby to the south-east. The northern half of the parish remains in agricultural use, and includes Haltemprice Priory farm, which contains archaeological remnants of the Augustinian
Haltemprice Priory Haltemprice Priory was an Augustinian monastery approximately two miles south of the village of Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The original monastic buildings have long since gone, although ruins of a farmhouse, built in ...
. The boundaries of the modern civil parish of Willerby are formed by the route of the former
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(including the B1232 road) to the south, the A164
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to Humber Bridge road to the west, and ''Sand Sike'' drainage channel in Springhead Park to the east. The northern boundary is with the civil parish of Cottingham. The parish rises from less than 33 feet above sea level in the east to approximately 130 feet at the western boundary, beyond which are the foothills of the
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in the parish of
Skidby Skidby is a small village and civil parish in Yorkshire Wolds of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated about north-west of Hull city centre, west of Cottingham and south of Beverley. The civil parish contains mainly agricul ...
. To the west of the village is Willerby Retail Park, which houses a
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supermarket (formerly
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, 2004). Willerby has two hotels, converted from late 19th century houses, "The Grange", now the Grange Park Hotel and Willerby Manor. The 1960 buildings of the lower school of
Wolfreton School Wolfreton School & Sixth Form College is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. In 2017, the most recent results available, 74% of pupils at Wolfreton School and Sixth Form Co ...
are within the civil parish of Willerby. According to the
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, Willerby parish had a population of 7,940, a reduction on the
2001 UK census A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194. The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National ...
figure of 8,056.


See also

*
Fairview Studios Fairview Studios is an independent recording studio located in Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Established by a local man Keith Herd in 1966, it has recorded musical acts such as Def Leppard, Mick Ronson, Red Guitars, Mostly Autumn ...
, a
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situated in the village. *
Haltemprice Priory Haltemprice Priory was an Augustinian monastery approximately two miles south of the village of Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The original monastic buildings have long since gone, although ruins of a farmhouse, built in ...
, former monastery and farm to the north-east of Willerby


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* * {{authority control Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire Civil parishes in the East Riding of Yorkshire