Engine Drain
Kingswood, occasionally referred to as Kingswood Parks, is a modern housing estate on the northern fringe of Kingston upon Hull, England.
Through much of its history much of the area has been marsh - some drainage was made during the medieval period - a canal, the Forthdyk (later Foredike) was cut in the 13th century. The Engine Drain was cut c.1675, with windmills aiding drainage of the area. In the 1770s construction of the Holderness Drain incorporated part of the Foredike into its route, and further improved drainage in the wider area. After drainage to the later 20th century the land use was exclusively agricultural.
The estate was developed from the 1990s onwards on low lying agricultural land lying immediately east of the River Hull, and adjacent to the Bransholme Estate to the south-east, separated by the A1033 and Wawne Road. In addition to the housing the area includes a large shopping area, Kingswood retail park, including an Asda superstore and several other warehouse type shopping outlets, plus leisure facilities including a cinema, indoor bowling, and several fast food restaurants.
The Kingswood's area boundaries are the River Hull to the west, the Wawne Road to the east, and the Wawne drain and Foredyke stream to the South; the northern boundary can be taken to be the boundary between the City of Kingston upon Hull and the civil parish of Wawne. The western side of the new development (beyond Engine Drain), is sometimes referred to as Kingswood Parks.
The route of the Engine Drain passes through the estate, roughly north-south, and has created a clear boundary between parts of the housing development. Green spaces include an undeveloped area of former farmland, midmeredales, located along the north side of the Wawne drain; and the wood, Ings Plantation, the boundaries of which date to at least the 1850s, is retained within the modern development.
As well as the Wawne drain and Foredyke stream drain at the southern boundary, which are closely paralleled by the John Newton way/Bude Road on the eastern half, there are several large scale man made features at the edges of the estate: the easternmost end of the A10033, named Raich Carter Way, connects to west Hull and Beverley via the Ennerdale Link Bridges; in the south-western corner, just outside the retail park area is a large water storage area, and a former sewage works, now the site of Bransholme Surface Water Pumping Station.
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