Little Coates
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Little Coates is an area of western Grimsby
, North East Lincolnshire
, England
. Its history goes back to medieval times with a mention in the Domesday Book
.
Previously a separate civil parish
covering some 1,000 acres (4 km²), Little Coates stretches northward to the Pyewipe industrial estate, westward to the River Freshney and southward to Laceby Road (A46
). On the other side of the river is the parish of Great Coates
and the Willows/Wybers Wood estates, while to the south lies the parish of Bradley
.
The ecclesiastical parish of Little Coates still functions, based at the parish church of Saint Michael on Great Coates Road. It works closely with the churches in Great Coates and Bradley villages, and serves around 20,000 people across the western slice of the town. The Littlecoates Community Centre in Saint Michaels Road, Yarborough Community Centre (Yarrow Road) and the Yarborough Resource Centre (Central Parade) provide social activities for the residents of their respective areas.
The Riverside Children's Centre (Central Parade) provides services for parents with children under the age of five, including childcare, exercise sessions, cookery lessons and adult learning. The Broadway Children's Centre provides similar activities for under fives, with those children under two having their own play and sleep area.
There are tenant and resident associations in the Crowland Avenue, Saint Michaels Road, Laceby Acres and Yarborough Road areas.
In 2005, following a ballot of tenants, council houses on the Crowland, Littlecoates and Yarborough estates were transferred to the Shoreline Housing Partnership.
Due to construction defects the Yarborough Estate, built during the 1950s, is in the process of being demolished and is gradually being replaced by modern housing, in a joint project between Shoreline and Stamford Homes. The name has been changed to Freshney Green. The first houses are already in use and over the next few years a total of 440 new homes will be built http://www.shorelinehp.com/freshneygreen/index.html.
The project also includes community facilities. A new health centre has opened in Central Parade, with GP, dental, pharmacy and mental health provision. Shoreline has produced a book about the history of the Yarborough Estate, as told by the residents themselves.
Several community magazines used to be distributed within the Little Coates area. The Gilbey Road area is considered to be part of the West Marsh
and received its community magazine Riverside. Another community magazine called Toothill and Roundabout was distributed in the Toothill and Yarborough Road area, while a third magazine, Livewire, was circulated in the Crowland Avenue, Bradley Cross Roads and Laceby Acres areas. These magazines relied on funding which came to an end, causing them to cease publication in 2008.
Grimsby Golf Course, Capes Recreation Ground, The Humber Royal Hotel (Littlecoates Road); Grimsby Auditorium
, Grimsby Leisure Centre (Cromwell Road) and part of the Freshney Parkway recreation area are to be found within Little Coates. Also located in Cromwell Road is a fire station and the Cromwell Road Resource Centre, which caters for people with complex needs.
There are two police stations; the Cromwell Road base serves the West Marsh, Yarborough Road, Saint Michaels Road and Laceby Acres, while the station on Laceby Road serves the Crowland estate. The only public library in the area was closed in 2004.
Kingston Gardens is situated in the Waterworks Cottages area. These gardens include a pond and eight acres of woodland. A local group called Friends of Kingston Gardens, made up of residents from neighbouring streets, has carried out work to improve and maintain the site, in spite of vandalism.
Located just within the parish, near present day Chelmsford Avenue and Westhill Road, were natural water springs. Waterworks were established here in 1863 by the Great Grimsby Waterworks Company. Supplies were pumped from these springs to homes in neighbouring Grimsby via a reservoir at Scartho
. Today the site is owned by Anglian Water.
By 1901 the population had reached 83. In the northern corner of the parish fish curing houses were erected and Dixons paper mill was opened in 1906. The population rapidly increased as houses were built in the vicinity of the mill and a community was established in the Gilbey Road area. Little Coates school was opened in Harlow Street; the school is still functioning but the paper mill closed in 1973. In 1921 the population stood at 2,768.
In 1928 Little Coates ceased to exist as a separate civil parish when most of it was absorbed by Grimsby, with a tiny portion being allocated to Great Coates. Before amalgamation the boundary with Grimsby ran along Pyewipe Road. To the east of this line, within Grimsby, were Corporation Road, Armstrong Street and the rest of the West Marsh. On the Little Coates side were Gilbey Road, Elsenham Road and neighbouring streets.
Using the present day street layout the boundary continued southward along the western side of, but excluded, Boulevard Avenue; took in the Yarborough Road area, parts of Marklew Avenue, Marshall Avenue and Morton Road. It then ran along the eastern edges of, and included, Shaftesbury Avenue, Clifton Road, Richmond Road, Kingston Avenue, the Waterworks Cottages, Cambridge Park estate, Sherwood Road and Watford Avenue, finishing at Laceby Road just west of modern day Saint Mark's Church.
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...
, 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
England
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. Its history goes back to medieval times with a mention in the Domesday Book
Domesday Book
Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...
.
Previously a separate civil parish
Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...
covering some 1,000 acres (4 km²), Little Coates stretches northward to the Pyewipe industrial estate, westward to the River Freshney and southward to Laceby Road (A46
A46 road
The A46 is an A road in England. It starts east of Bath, Somerset and ends in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, but it does not form a continuous route. Large portions of the old road have been lost, bypassed, or replaced by motorway development...
). On the other side of the river is the parish of Great Coates
Great Coates
Great Coates is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. It is to the north-west of the Grimsby urban area, and is served by Great Coates railway station...
and the Willows/Wybers Wood estates, while to the south lies the parish of Bradley
Bradley, Lincolnshire
Bradley is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. It lies 3 miles west of Grimsby and 2 miles north of Barnoldby le Beck. Its population recorded in the 2001 census was 198....
.
The ecclesiastical parish of Little Coates still functions, based at the parish church of Saint Michael on Great Coates Road. It works closely with the churches in Great Coates and Bradley villages, and serves around 20,000 people across the western slice of the town. The Littlecoates Community Centre in Saint Michaels Road, Yarborough Community Centre (Yarrow Road) and the Yarborough Resource Centre (Central Parade) provide social activities for the residents of their respective areas.
The Riverside Children's Centre (Central Parade) provides services for parents with children under the age of five, including childcare, exercise sessions, cookery lessons and adult learning. The Broadway Children's Centre provides similar activities for under fives, with those children under two having their own play and sleep area.
There are tenant and resident associations in the Crowland Avenue, Saint Michaels Road, Laceby Acres and Yarborough Road areas.
In 2005, following a ballot of tenants, council houses on the Crowland, Littlecoates and Yarborough estates were transferred to the Shoreline Housing Partnership.
Due to construction defects the Yarborough Estate, built during the 1950s, is in the process of being demolished and is gradually being replaced by modern housing, in a joint project between Shoreline and Stamford Homes. The name has been changed to Freshney Green. The first houses are already in use and over the next few years a total of 440 new homes will be built http://www.shorelinehp.com/freshneygreen/index.html.
The project also includes community facilities. A new health centre has opened in Central Parade, with GP, dental, pharmacy and mental health provision. Shoreline has produced a book about the history of the Yarborough Estate, as told by the residents themselves.
Several community magazines used to be distributed within the Little Coates area. The Gilbey Road area is considered to be part of the West Marsh
West Marsh
West Marsh is an area located in the northern part of Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England, lying close to the town centre. Its northern and eastern boundaries are formed by the Alexandra Dock, at its western edge is the Pyewipe industrial area and it is bordered in the south by the railway...
and received its community magazine Riverside. Another community magazine called Toothill and Roundabout was distributed in the Toothill and Yarborough Road area, while a third magazine, Livewire, was circulated in the Crowland Avenue, Bradley Cross Roads and Laceby Acres areas. These magazines relied on funding which came to an end, causing them to cease publication in 2008.
Grimsby Golf Course, Capes Recreation Ground, The Humber Royal Hotel (Littlecoates Road); Grimsby Auditorium
Grimsby Auditorium
Grimsby Auditorium is a theatre situated on Cromwell Road, in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire. With a seated audience capacity of 1,200 the Grimsby Auditorium is the largest professional theatre in Lincolnshire, and one of the larger theatres in the East of England...
, Grimsby Leisure Centre (Cromwell Road) and part of the Freshney Parkway recreation area are to be found within Little Coates. Also located in Cromwell Road is a fire station and the Cromwell Road Resource Centre, which caters for people with complex needs.
There are two police stations; the Cromwell Road base serves the West Marsh, Yarborough Road, Saint Michaels Road and Laceby Acres, while the station on Laceby Road serves the Crowland estate. The only public library in the area was closed in 2004.
Kingston Gardens is situated in the Waterworks Cottages area. These gardens include a pond and eight acres of woodland. A local group called Friends of Kingston Gardens, made up of residents from neighbouring streets, has carried out work to improve and maintain the site, in spite of vandalism.
History
Little Coates was already inhabited by the time of the Norman conquest. By 1861 it had a population of 59 and consisted of Saint Michaels church and a few cottages. There was also a farm on the site where now stand the recreation ground and golf course.Located just within the parish, near present day Chelmsford Avenue and Westhill Road, were natural water springs. Waterworks were established here in 1863 by the Great Grimsby Waterworks Company. Supplies were pumped from these springs to homes in neighbouring Grimsby via a reservoir at Scartho
Scartho
Scartho is a suburb located in the southern part of Grimsby, England, in the county of North East Lincolnshire. with a population of around 11,000. Up until the end of the Second World War it was a village; subsequent post-war expansion on the greenfield areas between Scartho and Grimsby has...
. Today the site is owned by Anglian Water.
By 1901 the population had reached 83. In the northern corner of the parish fish curing houses were erected and Dixons paper mill was opened in 1906. The population rapidly increased as houses were built in the vicinity of the mill and a community was established in the Gilbey Road area. Little Coates school was opened in Harlow Street; the school is still functioning but the paper mill closed in 1973. In 1921 the population stood at 2,768.
In 1928 Little Coates ceased to exist as a separate civil parish when most of it was absorbed by Grimsby, with a tiny portion being allocated to Great Coates. Before amalgamation the boundary with Grimsby ran along Pyewipe Road. To the east of this line, within Grimsby, were Corporation Road, Armstrong Street and the rest of the West Marsh. On the Little Coates side were Gilbey Road, Elsenham Road and neighbouring streets.
Using the present day street layout the boundary continued southward along the western side of, but excluded, Boulevard Avenue; took in the Yarborough Road area, parts of Marklew Avenue, Marshall Avenue and Morton Road. It then ran along the eastern edges of, and included, Shaftesbury Avenue, Clifton Road, Richmond Road, Kingston Avenue, the Waterworks Cottages, Cambridge Park estate, Sherwood Road and Watford Avenue, finishing at Laceby Road just west of modern day Saint Mark's Church.