Welwick
| Welwick | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 St Mary's Church, Welwick | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA343210 |
| Location: | 53°40’7"N, 0°1’54"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 297 (2011) |
| Post town: | Hull |
| Postcode: | HU12 |
| Dialling code: | 01964 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Beverley and Holderness |
Welwick is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on Holderness, four miles south of the town of Withernsea and two miles south-east of the village of Patrington, on the B1445 road from Patrington to Easington.
The civil parish, with both Welwick and its neighbouring hamlet, Weeton were recorded at the 2011 census with a population of 297.
The parish church, St Mary, is a Grade I listed building.[1]
History
In 1823 Welwick inhabitants numbered 410, including the settlements of Thorpe Plewland and Weeton. Occupations included eleven farmers, three shoemakers, two blacksmiths, two wheelwrights, a corn miller, a butcher, a tailor, a grocer who was also a draper, and the landlady of the Wheat Sheaf public house. There existed a Quaker Meeting House and a Methodist chapel. The same work also mentions an ancient and "grand" monument within St Mary's Church supposedly removed from Burstall Abbey, and perhaps a memorial to either John de Fortibus or William le Gros, Earl of Albemarle. Welwickthorpe, in the parish of Welwick lay between the village and Patrington.[2]
A sand and gravel pit was established in the south-west of the parish in the 1930s, located parallel and south of Pant Drain, the site's development was driven by the 1930s building boom. The extracted material, which lay less than 1 foot below the ground, was washed and grade separated on site by a rotary screen. By 1938 a rail tramway had been built to transport the excavated material to the main road – the line ran southwards from the midpoint of the B1445 between Welwick and Patrington, passing west of Haverfield House, to Oxlands Hill, and used a diesel shunting locomotive capable of hauling 120 tons; the material was transported in short wheelbase side tipping wagons.[3]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Welwick) |
- Welwick in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1366256: Church of St Mary (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Baines, Edward: 'History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York' (1823); pages 398, 399
- ↑ "Holderness Geological Curiosity : Golden Sand and Gravel Being Drawn from the Earth". The Times (Hull and Lincolnshire Times): p. 6. 1 October 1938.
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 11.
