Stallingborough, United Kingdom
Stallingborough is a town of 1,073 people in England, United Kingdom.
Why visit Stallingborough
Townapedia lists 2 parks and trails, 6 places to eat, 1 place to stay and 1 attraction in and around town.
Highlights include Ford's Avenue Open Space.
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About Stallingborough
Stallingborough is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,234.
From the Wikipedia article Stallingborough (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Things to do1
Parks, trails and playgrounds2
Restaurants and cafes6
Where to stay1
History
The area around Stallingborough may have been inhabited in prehistoric times; south-east of the village there is evidence of an Iron Age complex of enclosures.
Stallingborough is recorded as a manor (as "Stalinburg" or "Stalingeburg") in the 11th century Domesday Book. The medieval village of Stallingborough was to the west of the modern village and south of the 18th century church. The rights to hold a market and annual fair were granted by Henry III (13th century). Before the Black Death of the mid 14th century, the village had 50–60 households. This substantially decreased after the plague, but recovered to around 150 households by the mid 16th century. The medieval village is evidenced by earthworks, as well as cropmarks of fishponds, remains of ridge and furrow farming to the north, and a medieval cross in the churchyard of the modern church.
The medieval hagiography, On the Resting-Places of the Saints records that Stallingborough is the burial place of the Anglo-Saxon Saint Avbur. A chapel to St Avbur is mentioned in a will of Ric[hard] Hooton of Stallingborough dated 1530.
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The village was also the site of a manor house and associated formal gardens (post medieval, probably early 17th century). The medieval church collapsed in 1746, and the manor house was demolished in the same period. Enclosure in the 18th century reduced the population again, to around 67 households by 1758. St Peter & St Paul's Church was built in brick in 1779–81. In 1801 the village had a population of 274 in 59 houses, in 1821 343 persons in 63 houses. An 18th century extension of the Manor House, known as Stallingborough House, survived until the 1840s, when it was also demolished.
Stallingborough railway station and the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway opened around 1848, passing through the northern part of the village.
A fixed lighthouse (Stallingborough Light) was built in 1849 (lat. 53°37'), located in the Ferry House on the east bank of the outlet onto the Humber of the North Beck Drain.
In about 1860 the Hull Citadel was decommissioned, and new gun batteries constructed to replace it; the major works was the fort at Paull on the north bank of the Humber; at Stallingborough a battery of 6 guns was built.
In about 1887 the village included the church and vicarage, a smithy, and Wesleyan and a Primitive Methodist chapels, with the railway passing north of the church; the village extended to the north of the railway line, including the Green Man Inn, a manor house, and various dwellings spread along the main road. The extent of development of the village remained mostly unchanged until after the Second World War. The Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway was built through the northern part of the parish in 1912.
Gun batteries were also installed on the Humber foreshore at Stallingborough in the first and second world wars. During the First World War Stallingborough battery had two 6 inch breech-loading Mk VII guns; the First World War fort is evidenced by a pillbox. There was also a 3,000 feet (910 m) airfield (closed 1919) used by a flight of No. 251 Squadron RAF which carried out marine patrols with Airco DH.6 planes. During the Second World War the site was again used, with 4.7 inch quick-firing gun and a searchlight. There was also an anti aircraft battery at Little London, with positions for four guns. Post war a location near the Little London site was used as a Royal Observer Corps monitoring post.
In 1953 National Titanium Pigments Ltd (or Laporte Titanium Ltd) established a titanium dioxide manufacturing plant on the site of the former gun battery. The plant became known as the Battery works. Through the latter part of the 20th century the plant was expanded and modernised, later becoming part of SCM Corporation (1983), Hanson plc (1986), Millennium Chemicals (1996), and Cristal (2007). In the 1960s a number of companies (Doverstrand, Revertex, Harco) developed chemical plants producing synthetic lattices and resins at a site south-east of the Battery Works, also on the estuary foreshore. After a series of company reorganisations and takeovers, the works were organised under a single company, Synthomer, by 2002.
The village of Stallingborough underwent some minor housing development in the second half of the 20th century. By the end of the 1970s small cul-de-sac developments had been built south of the railway line off Station Road, with further small developments towards the end of the century. The B1210 to the south of the village was built c. 1960. The A180 road was built in the 1970s, and passes through the north of parish,
On 14 June 1966, a Royal Air Force Vickers Varsity trainer from RAF Lindholme collided with a Cessna 337A aircraft at about 6,500 feet (2,000 m) close to the village, killing two people. Five people survived the accident. The Varsity, with three crew and three student navigators, landed in a field, with its nose and wing ripped off by a tree. The Cessna broke up in the air following the collision.
From the 1970s a large industrial estate was developed in the north of the parish (North Moss Lane Industrial Estate, Kiln Lane Trading Estate), south-west of the Battery Works.
In the 1990s "Dash for gas" the 1.26 GW South Humber Bank Power Station was constructed adjacent to the Synthomer chemical plant in two phases from 1997 to 1999.
In 2006 a training centre for the chemical industry, CATCH ("Centre for Assessment and Technical Competence Humber") opened at Stallingbrough industrial estate.
In 2007 planning permission was given to construct 35 houses at Poaches Rise, south of Station Road south-west of the station. In 2008 planning permission was given to construct 43 houses (Saxonfields Drive) in the south of village near the B1210 roundabout. Houses were built at both sites.
In 2016 an 88 acres (36 ha) vehicle handling site, for use by Kia Motors, was officially opened at the Kiln Lane industrial estate.
From the History section of Stallingborough on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Geography
The civil parish of Stallingborough is located in the county of North East Lincolnshire between Immingham and Grimsby. The parish extends about 3.7 miles (6 km) from the coast. To the north-east the parish is bounded by the Humber Estuary; south-east is the parish of Healing, with the Oldfleet drain forming most of the boundary; to the north-west is the parish of Immingham with the North Beck Drain forming the northern part of the boundary; the parishes of Keelby and Riby are to the south-west and south respectively. The area is predominantly low-lying: the land north-east of Stallingborough village is below 5 metres (16 ft) elevation; south-west of the village the land rises to 16 metres (52 ft) above sea level. A minor landmark is a former cereal mill, south of the village.
From the Wikipedia article Stallingborough, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Churches and places of worship5
The Church of Saint Peter & Saint paul
Church · Anglican · 1.1 mi
Stallingborough Road, Grimsby
Keelby & Healing Methodist Church
Church · Methodist · 1.0 mi
Station Road, Grimsby
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church
Church · Plymouth Brethren
Healing Road, Grimsby
Shopping1
Gas and EV charging2
Schools, colleges and libraries3
Healthcare3
Healing Post Office Pharmacy
Clinic and pharmacy · 1.0 mi
101-103 Station Road, Grimsby
Map of Stallingborough
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Getting there and nearby towns
Humberside Airport (HUY) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 7 miles away.
- Immingham 2 mi northwest, about 4 min by car
- Grimsby 5 mi east, about 8 min by car
- Cleethorpes 7 mi east, about 10 min by car
- Tetney 9 mi southeast, about 15 min by car
- Hedon 11 mi north, about 17 min by car
- Kingston upon Hull 13 mi northwest, about 20 min by car
- Barton upon Humber 13 mi northwest, about 21 min by car
- Louth 17 mi southeast, about 27 min by car
- Scunthorpe 19 mi west, about 31 min by car
- Brough 19 mi northwest, about 30 min by car
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- Stallingborough Railway Station, David Wright, CC BY-SA 2.0
- St Margarets Laceby, Mgrest at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Healing Church GCR 9026, G1MFG at en.wikipedia, Public domain
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