North Ferriby

North Ferriby is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Nine miles from the busy centre of Hull, the village of North Ferriby nestles between the Yorkshire Wolds and the far reaches of the Humber. From its highest point the panoramic views over surrounding farmland and river to the Humber Bridge and the northern sweep of the Lincolnshire Wolds are unrivalled.

Although historically a farming community, the late 18th century saw a number of wealthy merchants from Hull creating small estates by way of constructing large house and gardens for themselves and cottages for their employees. In 1840 the railway opened a line into Hull, thereby giving even more people the incentive to move to North Ferriby. Following WWII and the 50's a development boom of considerable expansion took place involving pasturelands of the old farms and a number of estates of the large houses, and so substantially increasing the population of the area.

A local amateur archaeologist was to make a discovery of immense historical significance on the banks of the Humber at North Ferriby. Scientific work carried out on the remains showed the craft to be at least 4,000 years old. The boat, one of three found by Mr Ted Wright, would have been about 16m long with a flat bottom like a raft with the ends and sides curving up like a large canoe and large enough to carry animals as well as people. Made of huge oak planks sewn together with twisted yew branches, it would have been used for trade and could have been used by the immigrants of the early Bronze Age who came from the Low Counties and settled in the north east of England. Not only would these boats have been used in the Humber estuary and the surrounding rivers, but also for crossing the English Channel or the North Sea.

A rural area set in an agricultural and recreational landscape the residents of North Ferriby regard the village as a compact and self-contained community with a comprehensive range of shops, services, schools as well as places of worship. While its new designs and utilisation of available land is well-favoured, it is widely felt that the character of the village with its tree-lined roads and spacious gardens of the pre and post war periods should be retained. With the construction of the A63 by-pass in 1961the village has been relieved of all heavy traffic other than farm machinery, buses and goods vehicles serving the local shops. The area is divided into three by the bypass and railway, but as they are concealed in cuttings, neither is obvious or obtrusive.

The village is served by the main A63 road which links to the M62 motorway to the west and Hull to the east. Access to the village is from the new grade separated junction that will be fully completed in 2007.The village is served by Ferriby railway station which is on the Hull to York and Hull to Sheffield railway lines.

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