Dunswell

Coordinates: 53°48′05″N 0°22′18″W / 53.801362°N 0.371749°W / 53.801362; -0.371749
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Dunswell
Coach and Horses
Dunswell is located in East Riding of Yorkshire
Dunswell
Dunswell
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53°48′05″N 0°22′18″W / 53.801362°N 0.371749°W / 53.801362; -0.371749

Dunswell is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and in the civil parish of Woodmansey.

Historically also known as Beer-Houses due to the presence of two Inns in close proximity, the village is located on the main Kingston upon Hull to Beverley road. A significant drinking water extraction works was opened in 1931 west of the village, helping to supplying Hull and the surrounding area.

Geography[edit]

Dunswell is situated at the junction of Dunswell Lane and A1174 road Hull to Beverley road approximately 4 and 3.5 miles (6.4 and 5.6 km) from the centres of Kingston upon Hull and Beverley respectively. It is approximately 440 yards (400 m) west of the River Hull; the Beverley and Barmston Drain also runs north–south, adjacent to the west of the village.

The village has a hall, Dunswell Village Institute;[2] and a primary school Dunswell Primary, since 2014 Dunswell Academy.[3]

The Ship Inn is located at the junction of the main road and Ings Lane leading to Skidby Landing on the River Hull.[note 1]

Hull Livestock Market, the last remaining livestock market in East Riding of Yorkshire, has been located in the village since 2002.[5]

Governance[edit]

The village was in the Beverley and Holderness parliamentary constituency until the 2010 general election when it was transferred to the constituency of Haltemprice and Howden.[1]

History[edit]

The "Wagon and Horses" Inn, Dunswell (F.S. Smith, c. 1900)

According to Charles Overton, Dunswell was once known as Douceville, a reference to its many springs and wells.[6] At one time it was also known as Beer-Houses due to the two public houses in close vicinity.[7][8] The two pubs in the village, The Coach and Horses (aka The Plough) and The Wagon and Horses,[note 2] are thought to originate from the 17th century. The Hull to Beverley road was turn-piked in 1741.[9]

An act allowing the construction of the Beverley and Skidby Drain was passed in 1785, and the Beverley and Barmston Drain allowed by an act of 1798.[note 3] In 1880 improvements to the lower reaches of the drainage system enabled further extraction, and a steam engine for drainage was installed at Dunswell for the Skidby Drain.[11] The drainage of the land reduced flooding, but caused some local wells to become dry.[9]

In around 1814 a non-conformist chapel ("Bethel") was built in the village for the Methodist New Connexion branch.[12] In the 1850s the village consisted of two Inns on the Hull and Beverley road, with the village west along Dunswell Lane, with fewer than twenty houses.[13] The village school opened in 1881.[9]

In 1893 the Newington Water Company gained authorisation to open a water supply works at Dunswell to replace a source at Swanland that had become contaminated by salt.[14] The company was taken over by the Hull Corporation shortly after.[15] In 1911 permission was given for additional water works at Dunswell, and after being halted by the First World War, they were restarted in 1923 on a larger scale – the water pumping station was opened in 1931.[16][note 4] The works included a 16-foot (4.9 m) diameter well, with 5,200 feet (1,600 m) of adits.[18] The works was one of the three main water supplies for the area, along with Springhead Pumping Station and Mill Dam in Cottingham.[19] The adit system was expanded in the early 1950s to meet demand from the borough of Beverley but the works did not yield an increase in supply.[20]

St Faiths Church of England church opened in 1951; the non-conformist chapel held its last service in 1968.[9]

Low level housing development took place in the second half of the 20th century, with houses on Ings Lane, and houses and new cul-de-sac streets south of the Dunwell Lane/Beverley Road junction (The Meadows, Dene Close).[21] In 1985 the village became part of the civil parish of Woodmansey.[22]

In 2013 Dunswell primary school was listed for closure by East Riding of Yorkshire Council; the closure, which was opposed by many nearby residents was averted by transferring to academy status, as a subsidiary of the primary school in Swanland.[3]

Gallery[edit]

  • St Faiths Church (2008)
    St Faiths Church (2008)
  • The Ship Inn (2006)
    The Ship Inn (2006)
  • Gates to the enclosed water reservoir (2005)
    Gates to the enclosed water reservoir (2005)
  • Dunswell pumping station exterior (1976) (now demolished)
    Dunswell pumping station exterior (1976) (now demolished)

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ There was once a ferry across the Hull at Dunswell (1913).[4]
  2. ^ Replaced with houses.[9] demolished in the early 20th century,[10]
  3. ^ The Skidby Drain passed east of the village, the much larger Barmston Drain west of the village.
  4. ^ The main pumping station building was a white concrete structure resembling an Egyptian temple. (see Egyptian Revival architecture.) The above ground building was demolished in 1987.[17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Are you ready to vote in the next election?". East Riding News. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. April 2010. p. 3.
  2. ^ "Dunswell Village Institute". www.ruralcommunitybuildings.org.uk. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  3. ^ a b Sources:
  4. ^ Baggs, A. P.; Cooper, T. N.; Davidson-Cragoe, C.; Walker, J. (2002). "Wawne". In Allison, K. J.; Kent, G. H. R. (eds.). Holderness Wapentake, Middle and North Divisions. A History of the County of York East Riding. Vol. 7.
  5. ^ "Auctions with Frank Hill & Son (Auctioneers & Valuers) Ltd". www.frankhillandson.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  6. ^ Overton, Charles (1861). The History of Cottingham. p. 10.
  7. ^ Langdale, Thomas (1822). A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire: Containing the Names of All the Towns, Villages, Hamlets ... pp. 140, 156.
  8. ^ Nicholson, John (1926). Place-names of the East Riding of Yorkshire. p. 35.
  9. ^ a b c d e East Yorkshire Federation of Women's Institutes 1991.
  10. ^ Ordnance Survey. 1909, 1926. Sheet 226.NW
  11. ^ Sheppard 1976, pp. 14, 21.
  12. ^ Wollfe, John, ed. (2000). "Introduction, City of York and East Riding". Yorkshire Returns of the 1851 Census of Religious Worship. Vol. 1. University of York – Borthwick Institute. 359, p.57.
  13. ^ Ordnance Survey. 1852–3. Sheet 226
  14. ^ Aylwin & Ward 1969, p. 45.
  15. ^ Allison, K. J., ed. (1969). "Water Supply". The City of Kingston upon Hull. A History of the County of York East Riding. Vol. 1.
  16. ^ Jones 1955, pp. 388–391.
  17. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Neave, David (1995). Yorkshire: York and the East Riding. The Buildings of England (2nd ed.).
  18. ^ Aylwin & Ward 1969, p. 46.
  19. ^ "Abstracts of Water Works Literature". Journal of the American Water Works Association. 40 (7). New York: American Water Works Association: 798. 1948. ISSN 0003-150X.
  20. ^ Aylwin & Ward 1969, p. 47.
  21. ^ Ordnance Survey. 1:10560, 1938–52; 1956; 1973–4; 1982–4; 1989–92
  22. ^ Baggs, A. P.; Brown, L. M.; Forster, G. C. F.; Hall, I.; Horrox, R. E.; Kent, G. H. R.; Neave, D. (1989). "Thearne and Woodmansey". In Allison, K. J. (ed.). The borough and liberties of Beverley. A History of the County of York East Riding. Vol. 6.

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