Wawne
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East Riding of Yorkshire
The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Yorkshire, is a local government district with unitary authority status, and a ceremonial county of England. For ceremonial purposes the county also includes the city of Kingston upon Hull, which is a separate unitary authority...
, England; it is first mentioned (as Wagene, from an Old English word for 'quaking bog, quagmire') in 1086. It is situated approximately 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north of Hull
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...
city centre and 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of Beverley
Beverley
Beverley is a market town, civil parish and the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, located between the River Hull and the Westwood. The town is noted for Beverley Minster and architecturally-significant religious buildings along New Walk and other areas, as well as the Beverley...
on the east bank of the River Hull
River Hull
The River Hull is a navigable river in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England. It rises from a series of springs to the west of Driffield, and enters the Humber estuary at Kingston upon Hull. Following a period when the Archbishops of York charged tolls for its use, it became a free...
.
The civil parish of Wawne consists of the village of Wawne and the hamlet
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
of Meaux
Meaux, East Riding of Yorkshire
Meaux is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is about north of Hull city centre and east of Beverley.Meaux is part of the civil parish of Wawne.Meaux Abbey was a Cistercian Abbey near Meaux....
. According to the 2001 UK census
United Kingdom Census 2001
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....
, Wawne parish had a population of 878.
Wawne was once the home of Ashe Windham, whose manor house was later replaced by housing for guards and other employees of Hull Prison
Hull (HM Prison)
HM Prison Hull is a Category B men's local prison. The term 'local' means that this prison holds people on remand to the local courts. Hull Prison located in Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England...
. Historically, it was a crossing place across the River Hull
River Hull
The River Hull is a navigable river in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England. It rises from a series of springs to the west of Driffield, and enters the Humber estuary at Kingston upon Hull. Following a period when the Archbishops of York charged tolls for its use, it became a free...
, with the Wawne Ferry, a small barge which transported people and cattle across the river.
An alehouse at Wawne was first mentioned in the 1590s, and the Plough was named in 1666. Wawne and Meaux each had one or two licensed houses in the later 18th century, but only one was recorded from the 1820s, the Anchor, or Windham Arms, at Wawne, which stood at the river crossing and was kept by the ferryman. It was closed with the ferry in the 1940s, and the building was later used as a farmhouse. The Waggoners Arms, on Sutton Road, was opened in the 1970s and is still trading today. For a time the "Waggoners" became a Chinese restaurant which was noted for its bright orange roof. This easily identifies the village when viewed from the air by aircraft passing overhead on their way to Humberside Airport.
A small brick building was provided by the Windhams as a reading room in 1900, and evidently so used until 1926, when a First World War wooden hut was erected adjoining the room for a village institute. That hut was later replaced by another, and in the later 1980s a new brick-built village hall was put up on the site. The former reading room next door was used for church meetings. A library was run in Wawne Village Institute by the county council.
Before its 20th-century growth, the village had a cricket field on the south side of Main Street. That was replaced by another pitch, laid out on 1½ a. on the north side of Ferry Road, bought in 1963; in 1971 the parish council enlarged the site by c. ½ a., and in turn made tennis courts and a children's play area there. A pavilion had been added by the 1980s.
Land south-east of the church was bought in 1966 for a new vicarage house but was later used instead for allotment gardens.
Access to the village is provided via Meaux Road. Wawne itself was effectively a cul-de-sac, with no through roads. However since 2002 development between the Public House and the village has taken the place of the old run down garage site.
The developments, St. Peters Walk and Church Lane have provided the village with new housing and made a more attractive approach to the main village, local volunteers have also arranged flowerbeds and farming antiquities around the street signs further enhancing the overall look of the village.
Both Ferry Road and Greens Lane terminate at the River Hull, where there is no crossing to the small village of Thearne
Thearne
Thearne is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south east of Beverley to the east of the A1174 road from Hull to Beverley...
on the opposite bank.
The village has a small Post Office, and a general store which is licensed to sell alcohol.
Wawne County Primary School is located on Greens Lane.
Flooding in 2007
The village was hit during the floods in June 20072007 United Kingdom floods
The 2007 United Kingdom floods were a series of destructive floods that occurred in various areas across the country during the summer of 2007. The most severe floods occurred across Northern Ireland on 12 June; East Yorkshire and The Midlands on 15 June; Yorkshire, The Midlands, Gloucestershire,...
, mainly in Oak Square, where a blocked drain caused water levels to rise two feet and about five houses were flooded. The rest of the village was safe from the rising waters, except for Meaux Road corner.