Sutton-on-Hull
| Sutton-on-Hull | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 St James' Church, Sutton-on-Hull | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA117326 |
| Location: | 53°46’50"N, 0°18’17"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 12,649 (2011) |
| Post town: | Hull |
| Postcode: | HU8 |
| Dialling code: | 01482 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Kingston upon Hull |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Kingston upon Hull North |
Sutton-on-Hull (also known as Sutton-in-Holderness) is a village which has become a distinctive suburb of the city of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is found three miles north-east of the city centre.[1]
The population of the ward in Sutton-on-Hull was counted as 12,649 at the 2011 census.
History
Sutton is recorded in the Domesday Book as having 20 households and being chiefly owned by the Archbishop of York.[2] Its name is recorded in the book as Sudtone, which is Old English in origin: suðtun means Southern farmstead.[3] The village acquired a suffix to its name as the western part of the manor of Sutton was bordered by the River Hull.
The parish church, St James, is a Grade I listed building.[4] A chapel existed on the site since at least 1160. This was rebuilt extensively between 1347 and 1349, when it was consecrated at St James' Church.[3] The chancel of the church is the only substantial structure in the area that was constructed from stone; all other buildings used locally produced brick on account of there being no locally quarried stone available. The stones were moved up the River Hull to Stoneferry and then manoeuvred up the Antholme Dyke to Sutton.[5]
The village was served by Sutton-on-Hull railway station on the Hull and Holderness Railway until 1964.[6] The formation that the railway took through the village is now the Hornsea Rail Trail and forms part of the Trans Pennine Trail.[7]
Between 1939 and 1961, the Royal Air Force had a base in the area, RAF Sutton on Hull, which did not have a runway. Initially the site was used as a balloon barrage training and storage site, but it also had a fighter control unit and the RAF School of fire-fighting for 16 years between 1943 and 1959.[8][9][10]
The Bransholme Estate has been built on the former RAF site.[11]
About the village
The Sutton & Wawne Museum,[12] is inside The Old School, formerly the St James' Church of England School until 1977. It is now a local folk and social history museum, and family history research centre, serving the whole area of both historic parishes of St James' in Sutton, and St Peter's at Wawne. The Old School building is Grade II listed, c. 1859,[13] and is the oldest educational building in Hull still used for educational purposes. Museum within has been open since 1999, run entirely by volunteers. Admission free; open every Friday, 10 am - 2 pm.[14]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Sutton-on-Hull) |
- Information on Sutton-on-Hull from GENUKI
- History of RAF Sutton-on-Hull
- Sutton-on-Hull in the Domesday Book
- Sutton & Wawne Museum webpage
References
- ↑ Information on Sutton-on-Hull from GENUKI
- ↑ Sutton-on-Hull in the Domesday Book
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 SVCAA 2008, p. 3.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1293238: Church of St James and Boundary Wall (Grade I listing)
- ↑ SVCAA 2008, p. 17.
- ↑ Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
- ↑ "Hornsea Rail Trail (Hull to Hornsea) - Map". https://www.sustrans.org.uk/ncn/map/route/hornsea-rail-trail. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ↑ "The Second World War Years - 1943". http://www.17balloons.co.uk/pages/page-12.html. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- ↑ Pitchfork, Graham (2008). The Royal Air Force Day By Day. Stroud: History Press. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-7509-4309-3.
- ↑ Proctor, Ian (2014). "Recruitment & Training". The Royal Air Force in the Cold War, 1950-1970. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. p. 161. ISBN 9781473844551.
- ↑ Walsh, Stephen (28 March 2017). "'Misery maisonettes' no more: has Hull's Bransholme Estate turned a corner?". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/28/beautiful-place-hull-residents-bransholme-estate-50. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ↑ "Sutton & Wawne Museum". http://www.suttonandwawnemuseum.org.uk. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1391055: Sutton-on-Hull (Grade II listing)
- ↑ The Webpage Manager for the Sutton & Wawne Museum