North Killingholme Haven

North Killingholme Haven is a water outlet on the south bank of the Humber estuary in the civil parish of North Killingholme, to the northwest of the Port of Immingham.

The area was used at the beginning of the 20th century for clay extraction with a jetty transhipping clay to Hull; in 1912 construction of a jetty for the Admiralty was consented, for fuel oil shipment. During the First World War a large seaplane facility was operated, known as RNAS Killingholme.

In the 1990s a Simon Group established a Roll on-Roll off river terminal at the Haven, known as Humber Sea Terminal; the terminal was expanded to six berths through the 1990s and 2000s.

At the end of the 19th century North Killingholme Haven was used as a drainage point for networks of drainage canals in the fields in the North Killingholme area – the outfall of the waterway onto the Humber was sluiced. There was a single dwelling at the outfall – the New Inn.

Between 1909 and 1913 Earles Cement works in Wilmington was supplied with clay from pits at North Killingholme, shipped by barge. Clay dug by hand, and transported by horse, later steam winch and then narrow gauge locomotive to a jetty at the mouth of Killingholme Haven. The disused clay pits are since flooded and now form a saline lagoon habitat, with some scarce birds and invertebrates.

Construction and extension of a pier at the haven was consented by the North Killingholme (Admiralty Pier) Act of 1912; The Admiralty's jetty was to be 800 by 20 feet (243.8 by 6.1 m) long by wide with a T shaped head. The jetty was receiving oil by the mid 1910s. An act of 1931, the North Killingholme Admiralty Pier Act (1931) allowed the extension of the existing pier's head, replacing two sunken ships which had been used as dolphins at the head of the pier. The station soon became an important refuelling point for the Royal Navy. The oil storage site was served by the Killingholme Admiralty Platform station from 1930 to 1963.

Another act of 1912, the "North Killingholme Pier Act" sanctioned a commercial pier to be constructed by the Yorkshire Transport Company. The company's jetty was to be west of the Admiralty's jetty, 981 by 27 feet (299.0 by 8.2 m), with a westward "L" arm, 600 by 46 feet (183 by 14 m) long by wide, intended for shipment of coal from collieries accessible from the River Ouse. (unbuilt)

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