{{Short description|Village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2014}} {{Use British English|date=November 2014}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | coordinates = {{coord|53.801362|-0.371749|display=inline,title}} | label_position = top | official_name = Dunswell | static_image_name = Coach and Horses Dunswell.jpg | static_image_caption = Coach and Horses | population = | civil_parish = Woodmansey | unitary_england = East Riding of Yorkshire | region = Yorkshire and the Humber | lieutenancy_england = East Riding of Yorkshire | constituency_westminster = Beverley and Holderness | post_town = HULL | postcode_district = HU6 | postcode_area = HU | dial_code = 01482 | os_grid_reference = TA073351 | london_distance_mi = 155<!-- straight line per MOS – constant and comparable with other place distances --> | london_direction = S }} '''Dunswell''' is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and in the civil parish of Woodmansey.
Historically also known as '''Beer-Houses''' due to the presence of two Inns in close proximity, the village is located on the main Kingston upon Hull to Beverley road. A significant drinking water extraction works was opened in 1931 west of the village, helping to supplying Hull and the surrounding area.
==Geography== Dunswell is situated at the junction of Dunswell Lane and A1174 road Hull to Beverley road approximately {{convert|4|and|3.5|mi|km}} from the centres of Kingston upon Hull and Beverley respectively. It is approximately {{convert|440|yd|m|sigfig=1}} west of the River Hull; the Beverley and Barmston Drain also runs north–south, adjacent to the west of the village.
The village has a hall, ''Dunswell Village Institute'';<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ruralcommunitybuildings.org.uk/list-venues/3_recreation-halls/10_dunswell-village-institute.html| title= Dunswell Village Institute| work = www.ruralcommunitybuildings.org.uk| access-date = 23 June 2014}}</ref> and a primary school ''Dunswell Primary'', since 2014 ''Dunswell Academy''.<ref name="prim"/>
The Ship Inn is located at the junction of the main road and Ings Lane leading to Skidby Landing on the River Hull.{{#tag:ref|There was once a ferry across the Hull at Dunswell (1913).<ref>{{cite book| chapter-url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16145#s1| chapter = Wawne| title = Holderness Wapentake, Middle and North Divisions| volume =7| series = A History of the County of York East Riding|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=54|editor-first =K. J.|editor-last= Allison | editor-first2=G. H. R.|editor-last2=Kent|first1 = A. P. |last1 = Baggs|first2= T. N.|last2= Cooper |first3 = C. |last3 =Davidson-Cragoe| first4 = J. |last4 = Walker| year = 2002}}</ref>|group="note"}}
Hull Livestock Market, the last remaining livestock market in East Riding of Yorkshire, has been located in the village since 2002.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.frankhillandson.co.uk/auctions.html| title= Auctions with Frank Hill & Son (Auctioneers & Valuers) Ltd| website = www.frankhillandson.co.uk| access-date = 29 October 2020}}</ref>
==Governance== The village is in the Beverley and Holderness parliamentary constituency.
==History== thumb|left|The "Wagon and Horses" Inn, Dunswell (F.S. Smith, {{circa|1900}}) According to Charles Overton, Dunswell was once known as ''Douceville'', a reference to its many springs and wells.<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WbwHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA10| page =10| title = The History of Cottingham| first = Charles| last = Overton| date = 1861}}</ref> At one time it was also known as '''Beer-Houses''' due to the two public houses in close vicinity.<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ckcQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA156| first = Thomas| last = Langdale|title =A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire: Containing the Names of All the Towns, Villages, Hamlets ... |pages = 140, 156| date = 1822}}</ref><ref name="nom">{{cite book|title = Place-names of the East Riding of Yorkshire| year = 1926| first = John| last = Nicholson|page = 35}}</ref> The two pubs in the village, The Coach and Horses (aka The Plough) and The Wagon and Horses,{{#tag:ref|Replaced with houses.{{sfn|East Yorkshire Federation of Women's Institutes|1991}} demolished in the early 20th century,<ref>Ordnance Survey. 1909, 1926. Sheet 226.NW</ref>|group="note"}} are thought to originate from the 17th century. The Hull to Beverley road was turn-piked in 1741.{{sfn|East Yorkshire Federation of Women's Institutes|1991}}
The Saint John in Beverley and Skidby, Yorkshire (Drainage) Act 1785 (25 Geo. 3. c. 92) allowed the construction of the Beverley and Skidby Drain, and the Beverley and Barmston Drain allowed by the East Riding Drainage Act 1798 (38 Geo. 3. c. lxiii).<ref group="note">The Skidby Drain passed east of the village, the much larger Barmston Drain west of the village.</ref> In 1880 improvements to the lower reaches of the drainage system enabled further extraction, and a steam engine for drainage was installed at Dunswell for the Skidby Drain.{{sfn|Sheppard|1976|pp=14, 21}} The drainage of the land reduced flooding, but caused some local wells to become dry.{{sfn|East Yorkshire Federation of Women's Institutes|1991}}
In around 1814 a non-conformist chapel ("Bethel") was built in the village for the Methodist New Connexion branch.<ref>{{cite book| chapter = Introduction, City of York and East Riding| title = Yorkshire Returns of the 1851 Census of Religious Worship| at = 359, p.57| volume=1|publisher = University of York – Borthwick Institute| editor-first = John| editor-last = Wollfe| year =2000}}</ref> In the 1850s the village consisted of two Inns on the Hull and Beverley road, with the village west along Dunswell Lane, with fewer than twenty houses.<ref>Ordnance Survey. 1852–3. Sheet 226</ref> The village school opened in 1881.{{sfn|East Yorkshire Federation of Women's Institutes|1991}}
In 1893 the Newington Water Company gained authorisation to open a water supply works at Dunswell to replace a source at Swanland that had become contaminated by salt.{{sfn|Aylwin|Ward|1969|p=45}} The company was taken over by the Hull Corporation shortly after.<ref>{{cite book| chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66784#s2|chapter =Water Supply| series = A History of the County of York East Riding| volume = 1| title = The City of Kingston upon Hull |year = 1969| editor-first = K. J.| editor-last = Allison|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=549}}</ref> In 1911 permission was given for additional water works at Dunswell, and after being halted by the First World War, they were restarted in 1923 on a larger scale – the water pumping station was opened in 1931.{{sfn|Jones|1955|pp=388–391}}{{#tag:ref|The main pumping station building was a white concrete structure resembling an Egyptian temple. (see Egyptian Revival architecture.) The above ground building was demolished in 1987.<ref>{{cite book| title = Yorkshire: York and the East Riding| series = The Buildings of England| first1 =Nikolaus| last1 =Pevsner|author1link=Nikolaus Pevsner| first2=David| last2 = Neave|year =1995|edition=2nd}}</ref>|group="note"}} The works included a {{convert|16|ft|adj=on}} diameter well, with {{convert|5200|ft}} of adits.{{sfn|Aylwin|Ward|1969|p=46}} The works was one of the three main water supplies for the area, along with Springhead Pumping Station and Mill Dam in Cottingham.<ref>{{cite journal| journal = Journal of the American Water Works Association| title=Abstracts of Water Works Literature|volume=40|issue=7|year = 1948| publisher=American Water Works Association|location=New York|issn=0003-150X|page=798}}</ref> The adit system was expanded in the early 1950s to meet demand from the borough of Beverley but the works did not yield an increase in supply.{{sfn|Aylwin|Ward|1969|p=47}}
St Faiths Church of England church opened in 1951; the non-conformist chapel held its last service in 1968.{{sfn|East Yorkshire Federation of Women's Institutes|1991}}
Low level housing development took place in the second half of the 20th century, with houses on Ings Lane, and houses and new cul-de-sac streets south of the Dunwell Lane/Beverley Road junction (The Meadows, Dene Close).<ref>Ordnance Survey. 1:10560, 1938–52; 1956; 1973–4; 1982–4; 1989–92</ref> In 1985 the village became part of the civil parish of Woodmansey.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36457#s1| chapter = Thearne and Woodmansey| title = The borough and liberties of Beverley| volume =6|series= A History of the County of York East Riding|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=189|editor-first =K. J.|editor-last= Allison |first1 = A. P. |last1 = Baggs|first2= L. M.|last2= Brown |first3 = G. C. F. |last3 =Forster|first4 = I. |last4 =Hall |first5 = R. E. |last5 =Horrox |first6 = G. H. R. |last6 =Kent |first7 = D. |last7 = Neave| year = 1989}}</ref>
In 2013 Dunswell primary school was listed for closure by East Riding of Yorkshire Council; the closure, which was opposed by many nearby residents was averted by transferring to academy status, as a subsidiary of the primary school in Swanland.<ref name="prim">Sources: *{{cite news| url = http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Primary-schools-Dunswell-Gembling-face-closure/story-17946995-detail/story.html| title = Primary schools at Dunswell and Gembling face closure – and more could be at risk| date = 24 January 2013| work = Hull Daily Mail| access-date = 23 June 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141202111409/http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Primary-schools-Dunswell-Gembling-face-closure/story-17946995-detail/story.html| archive-date = 2 December 2014| url-status = dead}} *{{cite news| url = http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Parents-grill-East-Riding-Council-closure/story-18421895-detail/story.html| title = Parents grill East Riding Council over closure of Dunswell Primary School| date = 15 March 2013| work = Hull Daily Mail| access-date = 23 June 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141202104348/http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Parents-grill-East-Riding-Council-closure/story-18421895-detail/story.html| archive-date = 2 December 2014| url-status = dead}} *{{cite news| url = http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Saved-Dunswell-Primary-School-survive-academy/story-19734748-detail/story.html| title = Saved: Dunswell Primary School to survive as academy| date = 13 August 2013| work = Hull Daily Mail| access-date = 23 June 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141202112918/http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Saved-Dunswell-Primary-School-survive-academy/story-19734748-detail/story.html| archive-date = 2 December 2014| url-status = dead}}</ref>
==Gallery== {{gallery |File:St Faiths Church Dunswell.jpg|St Faiths Church (2008) |File:The Ship, Dunswell.jpg|The Ship Inn (2006) |File:Dunswell Lane Reservoir - geograph.org.uk - 49271.jpg|Gates to the enclosed water reservoir (2005) |File:Dunswell002.jpg|Dunswell pumping station exterior (1976) (now demolished) }}
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==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
===Sources=== {{Refbegin}} *{{cite book|title=Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets|year=2006|publisher=East Riding of Yorkshire Council|page=5<!--|access-date=4 February 2011-->}} *{{cite book| title = The East Yorkshire Village Book| publisher =Countryside Books|author=East Yorkshire Federation of Women's Institutes|isbn=1853061387|chapter = Dunswell| url=http://www.visitoruk.com/Beverley/dunswell-C592-V4680.html| year = 1991}} *{{cite book|title = Development and utilisation of water supplies in the East Riding of Yorkshire|url = https://archive.org/details/developmentutili0000aylw|url-access = registration| first1 = E.|last1 = Aylwin| first2 = R. C.| last2= Ward| year = 1969| publisher = University of Hull}} *{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1177/146642405507500614| title = The Water Supply of Kingston Upon Hull from 1292 to 1954, and the Future Sources of Supply| journal = The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health| volume = 75| issue = 6| pages = 386–400| year = 1955| last1 = Jones | first1 = T. H. | pmid = 14396231| doi-access = free}} *{{cite book|title = The Draining of the Hull Valley| first = June A.|last = Sheppard| orig-year = 1958| year = 1976| publisher = East Yorkshire Local History Society| series = East Yorkshire Local History Series| number = 8| editor-first = K. J.| editor-last = Allison| url=http://www.jubileeriver.co.uk/draining%2520hull%2520valley.pdf}} {{Refend}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Dunswell, East Riding of Yorkshire}} *{{cite web| url=http://www.stjohnnewland.org.uk/stfaiths.asp| title = St Faith's Church, Dunswell| work = www.stjohnnewland.org.uk}} *{{cite web| url=http://www.dunswellacademy.co.uk/| title = Dunswell Academy| work = www.dunswellacademy.co.uk }} *{{cite web| url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/29909805@N04/4653969140/| title = Dunswell Water Pumping Station| work = www.flickr.com}}, [https://www.flickr.com/photos/29909805@N04/4653968324 entrance detail]
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