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Dairycoates is located roughly halfway between the town centres of Hull and Hessle, at the western edge of the Hessle Road urban area, and its junction with the A1166; Gipsyville is immediately to the west, and contains the Dairycoates Industrial Estate; the two areas are separated by the Hull to Selby railway line which runs to Paragon station and the Hull Docks.
Gipsyville is a western suburb of Kingston upon Hull, approximately halfway between Hull and Hessle town centres near the Hessle Road / Askew Avenue junction (see A1166 road). Its boundaries are roughly the railway lines of the Hull and Selby Railway and Hull Docks Branch to the south and east respectively; and Pickering Park to the west.
The Newington branch, (also known as the Cottingham branch) ran between Hessle Road and Cottingham South junctions. [map 6] [map 7] It was an original length of the Hull–Bridlington line that became isolated in 1848 after the creation of lines into Paragon station.
The HU postcode area, also known as the Hull postcode area, [2] is a group of twenty postcode districts in England, within eight post towns. These cover the south of the East Riding of Yorkshire , including Hull , Beverley , Cottingham , Hessle , Hornsea , Withernsea , Brough and North Ferriby .
In Hull the bridge over the NER main line at Hessle Road was removed in 1962 and the elevated H&BR dock branch section became connected to the Hull to Selby Line at Hessle Road junction as part of a scheme to reduce the number of level crossings in Hull by routing all rail traffic to east Hull via the elevated Hull and Barnsley Line. [63]
The section from Hessle into Kingston upon Hull is named Clive Sullivan Way, after the rugby league footballer Clive Sullivan, [19] (originally titled the South Docks Road). There is a junction with Priory Way, and at Gipsyville it meets the A1166 at a grade-separated roundabout near St Andrew's Quay.
[map 1] The area included a number of farms, and two large houses, Spring Villa (built 1840 [3]), and East Ella (built 1842 [3] [map 2]). 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 ...
The modern road also follows part of the Hull-Preston-Hedon Turnpike that was established in 1745, from the point where it is known as Holderness Road in Hull to the river. Where North Bridge now stands there used to be a ferry to link the Holderness Road to the Hessle and Beverley roads as far back as 1305. [1] [2]