Author name: Richard Clarke

Yesterday afternoon decided, as it was a fine day, to put aside domestic and family ‘things to do’ and just wanted to be beside water but not at the coast (not on a fine Sunday afternoon in July) and a bank-top bench beside the River Ouse just came to mind as an ideal spot. Use […]

The last 45 blogs, written between 5/04/’20 and 14/07/’20, were compiled under the heading ‘Hull’s once out-of-town settlements’ and comprised; Sculcoates, 19 blogs between 5/04 and 14/05, Newland, 9 blogs between 19/05 and 3/06, Drypool, 9 blogs between 10/06 and 26/06, Southcoates, 3 blogs between 29/06 and 2/07, Marfleet, 3 blogs between 7/07 and 9/07

Above is the same map extract as on the previous blog. The name Stoneferry would suggest, at first site, a simple origin, taking the two components at face value. Ferry, one of a number across the River Hull centuries ago, necessary as otherwise the River formed a barrier to regional trade between Holderness and the

It is hard to find any evidence today of the time when Stoneferry was a rural community separate from the expanding town of Hull. Two sets of terraces of working class (possibly managerial) housing provide an insight into why the rural settlement of Stoneferry began to expand; one a terrace of substantial working class houses

Unlike some other maps of the time Scott’s navigational chart of the Humber Estuary, 1734, highlights churches but does not show them all by a standard symbol, some variations cross-reference with other evidence and Marfleet church is shown by the symbol above (enlarged). Drypool church is shown and none for Southcoates (s.p.b.s). The above symbol

The scan above is from Neave, D. Lost Churches and Chapels of Hull (Hutton Press, 1991, 66). The present day small church on Church Lane (off Marfleet Lane, Hedon Rd. end) was built in 1884 and is the third church to be built on this site or nearby. The present church has a basic nave