Easington, Yorkshire
| Easington | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 Easington High Street | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA398192 |
| Location: | 53°39’4"N, -0°6’50"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 691 (2011) |
| Post town: | Hull |
| Postcode: | HU12 |
| Dialling code: | 01964 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Beverley and Holderness |
Easington is a small village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the coast of the broad Holderness peninsula, standing between the Humber estuary and the North Sea at the south-eastern corner of the riding, and at the end of the B1445 road from Patrington.
A coastal town, Withernsea, stands approximately six miles to the north-east.
Parish church
The parish church, All Saints' is a Grade I listed building.[1]
In 1823 the ecclesiastical parish incumbency was recorded as a perpetual curacy under the patronage of the Archbishop of York.
Hisotry
In 1823 it was noted that the parish had a population of 488, with occupations that included a butcher, a corn miller, a weaver, two blacksmiths, two wheelwrights, two grocers, three shoemakers, four tailors, twelve farmers, two schoolmasters, a land surveyor, a yeoman, and the landlord of the Granby's Head public house. There were two carriers who operated between the village and Hull weekly.[2]
Many years ago, the parish of Easington included Turmarr, Hoton, Northorpe, Dimlington, Old Kilnsea and Ravenser. These villages have been lost to the ever-encroaching sea, and some had disappeared as early as 1400.[3]
About the village
A thatched tithe barn in the village is is a Grade II* listed building.[4]
Easington is the site of a large natural gas terminal, Easington Gas Terminal, consisting of two terminals owned and operated by BP: Centrica Storage which processes and stores gas offshore; and Gassco, operating the Norway to UK Langeled pipeline. In October 2022, Centrica announced that the undersea Rough natural gas storage facility, closed since 2017, was ready for partial re-opening.[5] Since December 2022 the terminal pumps gas to and from the facility, which acts as a reservoir to manage seasonal trends in the supply and demand of gas in the the United Kingdom.[6]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Easington, Yorkshire) |
- National Heritage List 1346602: Easington, Yorkshire
- Easington, Yorkshire in the Domesday Book
- Easington Parish Council
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1346602: Church of All Saints (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Baines, Edward (1823). History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York. pp. 199, 200.
- ↑ Welton, Michael A. (January 2007). "Easington". Skeals.co.uk. http://www.skeals.co.uk/easington.html.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1083473: Tithe Barn (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ "UK's biggest gas storage site reopened to boost winter energy supplies". The Guardian. 28 October 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/28/uk-biggest-gas-storage-site-brought-back-online-winter. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
- ↑ Lawson, Alex (1 December 2022). "Back online: the retired gas storage site now able to power 1m homes". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/01/back-online-the-retired-gas-storage-site-now-able-to-power-1m-homes.
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 5.