Willerby (Kirk Ella), East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Willerby, a township in Kirk Ella and Cottingham parishes, in the E.R. Yorkshire, 5½ miles WNW of Hull, with a station, called Willerby and Kirk Ella, on the Hull and Barnsley railway. It has a post office under Hull; money order office, Kirk Ella; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 983; population, 719. The Hull Borough Asylum is in this township.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Cottingham | |
Poor Law union | Sculcoates | |
Riding | East | |
Wapentake | Harthill |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Willerby (Kirk Ella) from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the East Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Willerby (Kirk Ella) are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following East Riding newspapers online: