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Looking due east towards Sunk Island hamlet.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Close up of the plaque set into a niche on the farmhouse chimney, showing that the property was built by the Crown Estate in 1855.
©Paul Glazzard
Dist:0.3km<br/>Farmhouse on the junction of Village Road and Old Hall Road, looking east. Set into a niche on the chimney is a plaque showing the house was built by the Crown Estate in 1855.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892) gives the following description: "The school with master's residence attached, was erected in 1857, for the accommodation of 100 children, and there are a little over the half of that number in average attendance. The Crown subscribes £60 yearly towards its support." The buildings are now being converted into private residences.
©Paul Glazzard
Dist:0.4km<br/>In 1877 an old church dedicated to Holy Trinity was demolished and this newer one erected on an adjoining site. The relatively small red brick building ceased functioning as a church in 1983 and is now a heritage centre.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>The now disused church is on the right
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Dist:0.5km<br/>Sunk Island originated as a sand bank in the Humber Estuary, by the reign of Charles I of England, it was said to form a seven acre island, one-and-a-half mile from the mainland. From 1663, the land around it was gradually drained, and by the mid-18th century, the channel separating it from the shore had entirely silted up. It was parished in 1831 and the church was erected during the 1870's.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>Heading eastwards with Holy Trinity Church spire peering over the houses
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