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South Killingholme Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about South Killingholme

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South Killingholme history

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There is archaeological (cropmark) evidence of human activity near to the present village to at least the Iron Age/Roman Britain period, with cropmark evidence of activity continuing into the medieval period. It is thought there was once a moated manor at South Killingholme, north of the modern village, dating to the Norman period or earlier, no remnants of the site remain. A remnant of the early village is “The Nook”, a timber-framed house dating to the 17th century or earlier, close to the church. A baptist chapel was built in 1747, and was reconstructed 1792 (now listed). The Grimsby and New Holland Railway (part of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway) opened in 1848; Ulceby railway station opened the same year, around 1.9 miles (3 km) west of the village. By 1886 the village had a school, post office, Methodist chapels and consisted of around twenty dwellings scattered mostly along Greengate Road, Town Street and School Road. By the turn of the 20th century the Cross Keys Inn had been built west of the traditional village centre, and by the 1930s a limited amount, less than 20 dwellings, of additional housing had been built. By 1872 the population of South Killingholme was 574, approximately triple that of North Killingholme. In addition to a Baptist chapel, there were now Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels in the village. The Barton and Immingham Light Railway was opened c. 1910 passing through the parish north of the village, parallel to the Humber bank; Killingholme railway station opened in 1910 on the line 1.9 miles (3 km) northeast of the village. The Barton and Immingham Line connected to the Humber Commercial Railway which also ran through the parish – both were built as part of the development of the Immingham Dock. By 1930 a fish meal and oil works had been built between the lights and brickworks, with its own jetty onto the Humber. Both the fish and brick works were rail connected to the new light railway. Additionally some terraced housing was built, Marsh Row, near Marsh farm on Marsh Lane, southeast of the fish meal works. No significant developments took place in the parish from the 1930s to the Second World War, and through the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1960s the area experienced large scale industrial development, primarily the Humber Refinery, developed by Continental Oil (see Industry of the South Humber Bank.) The road network was greatly developed, with existing roads (A160) widened; sidings from the former Humber Commercial railway were built for the oil refineries. On the banks of the Humber the fish meal and brick works became defunct – a jetty for hydrocarbon import was built, the Killingholme Gas Jetty, with an associated storage facility, in the environs of the lighthouses. Services on the Barton to Immingham Line ended in 1963. At the same time as the industrial expansion the village of South Killingholme grew greatly. By the mid 1960s the number of houses in the village had multiplied, with houses built along Greengate Lane, Town Street, Top Road and elsewhere. By the beginning of the 1970s the area bounded by Greengate Lane, Top Road and School Road, and Town Street had been filled with housing development, with new estates and roads to the north of Greengate Lane (St Deny’s Road). Housing development then stablished, excluding further houses built on Lancaster Road, with no further major development to 2006. Expansion of the Port of Immingham led to some storage facilities of the Immingham Bulk Terminal being built west of South Killingholme Haven (1970) within the parish. Another gas jetty, Immingham Gas Jetty, was built between the existing jetty and bulk terminal. In the first decade of the 21st century the bulk terminal was substantially expanded westwards into the parish; the new facility being known as the Humber International Terminal. The South Killingholme area was struck by an F1/T3 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day. In 2004 ConocoPhillips constructed a 730 MW power station (Conoco Philips Power Station, also known as Immingham Power Station) adjacent to their Humber Refinery. In 2005 the same company established a wood “Mayflower Wood” – a 120-acre (0.49 km) area was planted with over 60,000 trees and shrubs. In 2009 the power station was expanded, increasing output to 1,180 MW. In 2015 construction work on the “A160/A180 Port of Immingham Improvement” road improvement scheme was begun. The road improvement scheme was intended to convert the A160 from single to dual carriage way, with new junctions onto the A180 and A1173; as part of the scheme access from one side of South Killingholme to the other across the A160 was to be ended and replaced with a road bridge on Town Street over the dual carriageway.

South Killingholme geography / climate

The parish of South Killingholme is roughly 3.7 miles (6 km) long (north-west to south-east) and 1.2 miles (2 km) wide. The parish is low lying rising from less than 5 metres (16 ft) above sea level near the Humber bank, to a peak of 17 metres (56 ft) in the southwest part of the parish, south of the village. Half of parish is in agricultural use, primarily farming but including some plantations, the land is drained by man made ditches.

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Best South Killingholme places to visit

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South Killingholme has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied South Killingholme’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo South Killingholme’s information audio spots:

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