West Ella
| West Ella | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 West Ella Road, West Ella (2008) | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA009292 |
| Location: | 53°44’59"N, 0°28’17"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Hull |
| Postcode: | HU10 |
| Dialling code: | 01482 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Haltemprice and Howden |
West Ella is a small village to the west of Kirk Ella, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the eastern edge of the Yorkshire Wolds, six miles west of the city of Kingston upon Hull.
The village is on West Ella Road, between Kirk Ella and Swanland – it was beautified by the owners the Sykes family in the 19th century, and as a consequence much of the area is now a conservation area, with many listed buildings. In the two decades after the end of the Second World War the village expanded, more than doubling the housing stock, mainly high-quality detached dwellings, with much of the new housing along an additional road, Elveley Drive, running north. As a result, West Ella is considered to be one of the most exclusive and desirable villages to live in the East Riding.[1]
History
The name has been interpreted to mean "Ælfa's Western Woodland Clearing", and be Old English in origin;[2] there is evidence of human activity in the area from the Mesolithic period, and later during the Iron Age and Roman Britain periods.
Of four references to "Ella" in the Domesday Book it is thought that one refers to West Ella, either as a village of 20 or 5 persons.[2]
The fields around Kirk Ella, West Ella and Willerby were inclosed in by Acts of 1796 and 1824.[3]
Unlike its eastern neighbour Kirk Ella no movement of Hull merchants to, or pattern of construction of large houses took place in West Ella during the 18th and 19th century – in 1801 the villages population of 79; in 1851 the population was 1851.[4] The only large house in the village was, and is West Ella Hall, built around 1740; the house became the property of Joseph Sykes in 1756, who improved the estate and enclosed the grounds. The original two storey four bay house was extended on each side in the 1770s, with further extensions in 1800, early 1800s and 1884.[5][6]
The village of West Ella was 'Gothicised' by its owners the Sykes family in the 19th century – with houses receiving both Tudor and Gothic details – the majority or buildings date from the early or mid 19th century; the remainder from the mid or late 18th century; the Ancient Manor House, has a datestone of 1753.[7]
In 1850 the village consisted of a single street, with West Ella Hall and its large grounds at the east end on the south side; the Manor House off a short track to the south; and less than twenty other buildings.[8] A Weslyan Methodist church was built 1895,[9] in other respects development of the village was unchanged at the beginning of the 20th century.
During the first half of the 20th century there was little building growth in the village. By the end of the 1930s the urban spread of Kirk Ella had begun to expand westwards along West Ella Road. By the end of the 1940s this growth had reached West Ella, with substantial garden houses all along the south side of West Ella Road between the two villages; new housing had been developed in West Ella at the west and east ends, also of a substantial nature of detached houses with large gardens.
|
Outside links
 |
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about West Ella) |
References
- ↑ Kershaw, Tom (2019-10-13). "Life on East Yorkshire's exclusive 'golden mile'" (in en). https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/west-ella-golden-mile-life-3406984.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Conservation Area Appraisal 2007, p. 6.
- ↑ Woolley, William, ed (1830). "Chronological Table". A collection of statutes relating to the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, the county of the same town and the parish of Sculcoates. Simpkin and Marshall. pp. xi–xxviii. https://books.google.com/books?id=zMgHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR23.
- ↑ Allison 1981, p. 27.
- ↑ Allison 1981, p. 34.
- ↑ Pevsner & Neave 1995, p. 744.
- ↑ Pevsner & Neave 1995, pp. 744–5.
- ↑ Ordnance Survey Sheet 239 1852
- ↑ Pevsner & Neave 1995, p. 745.
- "Conservation Area Appraisal – West Ella". East Riding Of Yorkshire Council. 2007. http://www2.eastriding.gov.uk/EasysiteWeb/getresource.axd?AssetID=98160&type=full&servicetype=Attachment.
- Allison, K. J. (1981). Hull Gent seeks country residence. East Yorkshire Local History Society.
- Bulmer, T. (1892). "Kirk Ella". Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Kirkella/Kirkella92.html.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Neave, David (1995). Yorkshire: York And the East Riding (2nd ed.). Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09593-7.
- Tickell, John (1798). The History of the Town and County of Kingston Upon Hull. T. Lee. https://books.google.com/books?id=GAk-AQAAMAAJ.