Author name: Richard Clarke

Finally in this Newland section a word about roads. In an immediate area without any canals it was the River Hull and local ‘king’s highways’ (a term much used in 18th century but not today) along which people, commerce and agricultural goods moved. In 1744 the road from Hull to Beverley was ‘turnpiked’, this turnpike […]

The photo above shows part of St. John’s, Newland churchyard (s.p.b.). Newland figured in the English Civil Wars of the 1640s, in particular during the second siege of Hull by Royalist forces in 1643 (incidentally the name Newland already existed in the 17th century). These Cavaliers cut off the fresh water supply from Anlaby and

Yesterday’s blog included a photo of the Newland Community notice board on the corner of Clough Rd. and Beverley Rd. In need of t.l.c. but nevertheless an indication of the idea that once separate communities to the main town can, with some determination, retain some identity as, for example, do the spring-line settlements to the

The second pre-20th century suburban development is centred on the Newland area of north Hull, being still in the mid 19th century a straggling hamlet into which the ribbon development alongside Beverley Road was intruding by that time. My study here is currently disadvantaged by two things; (a) with the Hull History Centre being closed

Unlike 20th century suburbs of Hull, the spring-line settlements at the base of the dip slope of the Yorkshire Wolds and those on the fringes of Holderness such as Sutton and Bilton, Sculcoates has no ‘centre’ by which it can be defined. Even when still a rural parish the settlement was ribbon or straggling in

The last map extract I am using to show the development of Sculcoates from farming hamlet to part of an urban area is from G. W. Bacon’s ‘Plan of Hull’ produced in 1906 for inclusion in the Kelly’s Directory of the time. (With the History Centre being closed I am limited to the maps I