Kirk Ella
| Kirk Ella | |
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 Church Lane, Kirk Ella (2008) |
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| Kirk Ella shown within the East Riding of Yorkshire | |
| OS grid reference | TA018294 |
| • London | 155 mi (249 km) S |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HULL |
| Postcode district | HU10 |
| Dialling code | 01482 |
| Police | Humberside |
| Fire | Humberside |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| UK Parliament | |
Kirk Ella is a village on the western outskirts of Kingston upon Hull, approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of the city centre, situated in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
The place has been a village since at least the 11th century – it remained a relatively unimportant hamlet until the 18th and 19th centuries when it became a location of choice for merchants of Hull wishing to live outside the city. Several large houses were built during this period without any substantial increase in village population. After the 1920s the village grew substantially with large amounts of high quality housing surrounding the traditional village centre – the village continued to grow during the second half of the 20th century, becoming a large suburb, contiguous with Anlaby and Willerby.
Together with West Ella, it forms the civil parish of Kirk Ella and West Ella.
Kirk Ella is primarily residential, but has a few shops. Modern Kirk Ella is contiguous with the suburbs of Willerby to the north; and Anlaby to the east; the village of West Ella is to the west, separated by a golf course; to the south is Hessle separated by under 0.6 miles (1 km) of fields.
The village skirts the foothills of the Yorkshire Wolds to the west, and rises from around 10 to 40 metres (33 to 131 ft) above sea level east to west. Housing stock is affluent, much of it detached or semi detached, with large back gardens; street layouts are irregular, curved, with no main roads passing through the village. Much of the housing development is to the southeast of the original village centre, and church. An area of Kirk Ella including the church, Church Lane, and parts of Packman Lane and Godmans Lane has been designated a conservation area (since 1974), mainly due to its interesting and varied housing stock. The large gardens in much of the village contribute to a wide variety of native and non-native trees and bushes, and thriving wildlife.
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