Eggborough
| Eggborough | |
| Yorkshire West Riding | |
|---|---|
 Horse and Jockey pub in the village, with power station chimney visible in background | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE565235 |
| Location: | 53°42’18"N, 1°8’44"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,952 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Goole |
| Postcode: | DN14 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Selby |
Eggborough is a village and civil parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire, approximately seven miles east of Pontefract and the same distance south-west of Selby. The village is situated at the intersection of the A19 and the A645 roads, close to the M62.
Primary-age children attend Whitley and Eggborough Primary School which lies in Learning Lane on the other side of the M62.[2]
History
Eggborough (as well as High and Low Eggborough) is mentioned in the Domesday Book in the Wapentake of Osgoldcross.[3] The name derives from Ecga's Burh; a fortification which belonged to a person named Ecga.[4]
There is a pub in the village; the Horse and Jockey. There is also a sports and leisure complex based in the grounds of the nearby Eggborough Power Station. The sports and leisure complex offers a nine-hole golf course, two miniature football pitches, two full size football pitches, a bowling green, a children's play area, a miniature railway, a licensed bar, snooker, pool, a green room and a concert hall.
The centre of the village used to be the location of a Bowman's Flour Mill, but this ceased production in 2016.[5]
Close to Eggborough is the site of French-owned Saint-Gobain Glass, Europe's leading producer of float (flat) glass. The plant, which opened in 1998,[6] employs over 170 people and produces 200,000 tons of flat glass per year.[7]
The large village hall on Selby Road is well used by residents and it is a shared facility with the residents of Whitley Bridge who have no village hall of their own.[8] Other activities take place at the Methodist Hall and the Westfield Centre.
The village also has its own football team called Eggborough Eagles, which is based at the Eggborough Sports and Leisure Complex. The Eggborough Eagles was founded in 2011 by Chairman James Lancaster, Secretary Michael Corr and Manager Michael Shaughnessy. They came 4th in their first ever season recognised in the Selby and District Invitational League.
Power stations
The village is the site of the coal-fired Eggborough Power Station, built in the 1960s and now owned by British Energy. Its four turbines can produce a total combined output of 1960 MWe. The power station was due to be closed in 2016, but won a reprieve as a back up generator of power until March 2017 and then again until March 2018. The owners are applying for permission to convert the power station to a gas-fired power plant.[9][10]
There was also a short-lived biomass power station, ARBRE Power Station, built by the Kelda Group, owners of Yorkshire Water, which cost £30 million.[11] The site was developed to burn willow wood grown by local farmers and turn it into gas, however, by August 2002 had gone into liquidation.[12] The capacity of the station was rated at 8 MW per year. In 2015, DRENL (UK) gained approval to convert the old ARBRE site into an Energy-from-waste plant that would process 200,000 tons of waste per year to generate 10 MW of electricity.[13]
Transport
the A19 and the A645 intersect in the village with the A19 being on a north/south axis and having a junction (number 34) on the M62 just south of the village. To the south of the village lies the Aire and Calder Navigation. Eggborough is served by Whitley Bridge railway station on the Pontefract line, but services are limited to just two trains a day to Leeds and only one through to Goole.[14]
References
- ↑ "Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123120&c=Eggborough&d=16&e=62&g=6455568&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1439565197355&enc=1. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
- ↑ "Eggborough pupils left in cold by theft". York Press. 21 December 2011. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9431193.Eggborough_pupils_left_in_cold_by_theft/. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ↑ Powell-Smith, Anna. "[High and Low Eggborough | Domesday Book"]. http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/high-and-low-eggborough/. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 161. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
- ↑ "Bowman Ingredients Bowmans Refocuses For Future Growth". http://www.bowmaningredients.co.uk/news/bowmans-refocuses-for-future-growth/. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ↑ "Selby gets glass jobs". York Press. 24 March 1998. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/7969995.Selby_gets_glass_jobs/. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ↑ "Saint-Gobain Glass UK". York Press. 1 June 2006. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/886945.display/. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ↑ "Whitley Village Plan 2006" (PDF). p. 4. http://www.whitleycommunity.co.uk/Core/Whitley-Village/UserFiles/Files/Parish%20Plan/whitleyvillageplan_v2.pdf. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ↑ Barnett, Ben (9 February 2016). "Eggborough power station wins 12-month reprieve". The Yorkshire Post. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/eggborough-power-station-wins-12-month-reprieve-1-7723522. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ↑ Williams, Diarmid (6 May 2017). "EPH applies to change Eggborough plant from coal to gas power". http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2017/06/eph-applies-to-change-eggborough-plant-from-coal-to-gas-power.html. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ↑ "'Green' power station to close". York Press. 2 August 2002. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/7922792._Green__power_station_to_close/. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ↑ "'Green' power station is sold". BBC News. 14 May 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/3025755.stm. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ↑ Simkins, Gareth (15 May 2015). "EfW rebuild for failed biomass plant". http://www.endswasteandbioenergy.com/article/1347359/efw-rebuild-failed-biomass-plant. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ↑ Freeman, Sarah (28 April 2015). "The ghost trains haunting Britain’s rail network" (in en). The Yorkshire Post. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/the-ghost-trains-haunting-britain-s-rail-network-1-7231906. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
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