Fockerby

Fockerby
Fockerby
 Fockerby shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid referenceSE845189
   – London 150 mi (240 km)  S
Civil parishGarthorpe and Fockerby
Unitary authorityNorth Lincolnshire
Ceremonial countyLincolnshire
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town SCUNTHORPE
Postcode district DN17
Police Humberside
Fire Humberside
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
UK ParliamentBrigg and Goole
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Lincolnshire

Coordinates: 53°39′37″N 0°43′19″W / 53.6604°N 0.721969°W

Fockerby is a village in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 8 miles (13 km) south-east from Goole and 1 mile (1.6 km) west from the River Trent.

Fockerby is part of the Isle of Axholme and close to the border with the East Riding of Yorkshire. The village is in the civil parish of Garthorpe and Fockerby,[1] and is contiguous with the village of Garthorpe to the north-east, with which it forms one community joined by a section of road which crosses the previous course of the River Don.

This short stretch of tarmac links Westend, Garthorpe to Station Road, Fockerby. The two villages were once separated by a course of the River Don which this road crosses. They were also in different counties, Garthorpe being in the Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire and Fockerby in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The two villages were joined with the creation of Humberside and were in Boothferry District. Since 1996 they are in North Lincolnshire.
Road joining Fockerby and Garthorpe over the previous course of the River Don

In 1872 Fockerby was in Yorkshire, divided from Garthorpe by the "Old Don".[2]

By 1881 the village was a township in the parish of Adlingfleet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and "on the west bank of the old Don River, which is now filled in and under cultivation". Lords of the manor and principal landowners were the Master and fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Chief crops grown were flax, potatoes, wheat and beans on an area of 910 acres (3.7 km2). Occupations at the time included a land surveyor, a tailor, a miller, and three farmers, one of whom was a landowner who lived at the Hall and employed a farm bailiff. Fockerby population in 1871 was 88.[3]

Fockerby was once served by Fockerby railway station the terminus of a branch line from Goole.

References

  1. ↑ "Garthorpe and Fockerby". List of parish councils. North Lincolnshire council. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  2. ↑ White, William (1872); White’s History, Gazeteer and Directory of Lincolnshire, p. 461
  3. ↑ Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1881, p. 26

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