Anlaby Common
Anlaby Common is former common land, now an outer suburb of Kingston upon Hull. The area includes the residential areas which are located on the western urban fringe of Hull; the B1231 road (Hull Road/Springfield Way) passes through all of Anlaby Common's estates, east to west.
As of 2011 the western part of the land is located in the civil parish of Anlaby with Anlaby Common in the East Riding of Yorkshire; whilst the eastern part of the land is located in Kingston upon Hull.
Historically Anlaby Common was an area of agricultural land east of Anlaby; the historic 'Anlaby Common' area now includes several areas of housing, including areas known as East Ella, Anlaby Park, and Anlaby Common; the historic Anlaby Common area includes land within both the East Riding of Yorkshire and the city of Hull.
The present urban development in the area is essentially contiguous with than of Hull, as of 2006 there is a some green space including playing fields separating the area and Anlaby village, though housing development along Anlaby Road is almost continuous.
The area includes the churches of Anlaby Park Methodist Church and St Mark's Anglican parish church; these churches work closely together under the name "Common Ground". Anlaby Common is near the small suburb of East Ella.
In the 1850s Anlaby Common was enclosed land in open countryside to the east of the village of Anlaby. The area included a number of farms, and two large houses, Spring Villa (built 1840), and East Ella (built 1842.). The Hull and Kirk Ella Trust road (later Anlaby Road) ran east west through the area; a northern border approximated to Derringham Dike/Spring Bank waterway and road, whilst to the south was Hessle common across fields.
By the 1890s the Hull, Barnsley and West Riding Junction Railway (HB&WRJnc.Rlwy.) had been constructed, east-west, across the land (c. 1880s), and construction of terraced and court housing had taken place northwest of Spring Villa (Ditmas Avenue etc.), on the north side of Anlaby Road. The HB&WRJnc.Rlwy built a locomotive works (Springhead locomotive works), and sidings in the north eastern part of the common.
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