Lime Kiln Creek, Kingston upon Hull

Coordinates: 53°44′12″N 0°20′33″W / 53.7368°N 0.3424°W

Lime Kiln Creek (or Lime Kiln Drain) was an outlet onto the Humber Estuary in Kingston upon Hull, England, thought to be a previous outlet of the River Hull onto the estuary.

History

The creek takes its name from lime kilns which once stood in its vicinity.^[1]

It is thought that the creek was once the outlet of the River Hull before its flow was redirected eastwards along the Sayer Creek in early medieval times.^[2]

The creek was the site of a goods station and wharf (Lime Kiln Creek wharf) used by the Hull and Selby Railway and Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway from the 1840s onwards.^[3]

The Creek was stopped up as a result of the building of the West dock (Albert Dock) in the 1860s.^[4] During the course of the excavations for the new dock a hoard of low value (halfpennies, less than 30% silver, copper base) coins from the reign of Edward I was found 21 feet (6.4 m) below ground, near the creek.^[5]

References

1. Sheahan, James Joseph (1864), "The Port", General and concise history and description of the town and port of Kingston-upon-Hull, Simpson, Marshall and Co. (London), p. 329
2. Sources:
   • Symons, John (1 June 1872), "The Old Stone Chair of Hull", The Antiquary 2: 131–132, We all know that long before the situation of the town attracted the attention of King Edward I-, the River Hull experienced a change in its course as it neared the Humber. The portion known as Limekiln Creek was the original outlet ; the present old harbour being originally a drain, called Sayer's Creek.
   • Sheahan, J.J.; Whellan, T. (1855), History and Topography of the City of York; the East Riding of Yorkshire and a portion of the West Riding 1, pp. 31–32, All the local historians, except Mr. Frost, assert that the River Hull in former times discharged itself into the Humber to the eastward of the present river; but that gentleman found abundant evidence in the registers and histories of the Abbey of Meaux, to show that its ancient course lay to the westward of the present channel
   • Sheahan, J.J.; Whellan, T. (1857), History and Topography of the City of York; the East Riding of Yorkshire and a portion of the West Riding 2, p. 11, At a very early period, long anterior to the time that the situation of Hull attracted the attention of Edward I., the River Hull had experienced the change in its course [..] the old river was formerly on the west side of the town — the inlet, known by the name of Lime Kiln Creek being a part of it
   • Frost, Charles (1827), "3. Of the change which took place in the course of the River Hull in the Thirteenth Century", Notices relative to the early history of the town and port of Hull, J.B. Nichols, pp. 28–39
3. NER and MS&LR Limekiln Creek facilities and service:
   • Tomlinson, William Weaver (1915), The North Eastern Railway; its rise and development, Andrew Reid and Company, Newcastle; Longmans, Green and Company, London, pp. 340–1
   • Dow, G., Great Central 1, p. 172
   • Allison, K.J., ed. (1969), "Communications: Railways", A History of the County of York East Riding (Victoria County History Institute of Historical Research), 1. The City of Kingston upon Hull
4. Moss, W.H.; Dyson and Co. (23 November 1860), "Kingston-upon-Hull Docks (New Works.)", The London Gazette (22450): 4483-4486
5. Banks, F. (1968), "The 1868 hoard from the Albert Dock Lockpit, Hull" (PDF), British Numismatic Journal 37