East Ravendale is a small village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire

North East Lincolnshire

North East Lincolnshire is a unitary authority in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, bordering the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire and the administrative county of Lincolnshire...

, England. It lies 6 miles (9.7 km) south-south-west of Grimsby

Grimsby

Grimsby is a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. It has been the administrative centre of the unitary authority area of North East Lincolnshire since 1996...

, and 0.5 mile (0.80467 km) west of the A18.

The village has a small school, a church, approximately twenty houses, and a postbox.
Both East Ravendale Primary School and the neighbouring Grade II listed St Martin's Church were designed by architect James Fowler

James Fowler (architect)

James Fowler JP, FRIBA, known as “Fowler of Louth”, was an English ecclesiastical architect of the Victorian Age chiefly associated with the restoration and renovation of churches....

 in 1857, and were his first new build school and church.

Three other buildings in the village are listed: early 18th century East Ravendale Hall, 19th century Parkside farmhouse, and 17th century thatched cottages.

West Ravendale

West Ravendale

West Ravendale is a hamlet in the civil parish of East Ravendale, Lincolnshire, England, about south west of the town of Grimsby.The ruins of West Ravendale Priory are located here. It was a small Alien house of the Premonstratensian Order. It belonged to Beaufort Abbey in Brittany. The site is...

, the site of the ruins of Ravendale Priory, lies 0.5 mile (0.80467 km) to the west and is part of East Ravendale civil parish.

External links

• "Ravendale", genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2011