Fockerby

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| country = England

| static_image = Former Station Master's House, Fockerby - geograph.org.uk - 1967720.jpg

| static_image_caption = Former Station Master's House

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| official_name = Fockerby

| population =

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| civil_parish = Garthorpe and Fockerby

| unitary_england = North Lincolnshire

| lieutenancy_england = Lincolnshire

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| constituency_westminster = Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme

| post_town = SCUNTHORPE

| postcode_district = DN17

| postcode_area = DN

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| london_distance_mi = 150

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Fockerby is a village in the civil parish of Garthorpe and Fockerby,{{cite web|title=Garthorpe and Fockerby|url=http://maps.northlincs.gov.uk/iSharewebin.Web/myNorthlincs.aspx?mapsource=Northlincs_webin/nlc_allmaps&Layers=Parishes|work=Map of parish councils North Lincolnshire|publisher=North Lincolnshire council|accessdate=24 January 2016}} in the North Lincolnshire district, in the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately {{convert|8|mi|km|0}} south-east from Goole and {{convert|1|mi|km|1}} west from the River Trent.

Fockerby is part of the Isle of Axholme and close to the border with the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is contiguous with the village of Garthorpe to the north-east, with which it forms one community joined by a section of road which crosses the previous course of the River Don.

File:Street in Fockerby (Geograph 1966459).jpg over the previous course of the River Don]]

History

In 1872 Fockerby was in Yorkshire, divided from Garthorpe by the "Old Don".White, William (1872); White’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire, p. 461

By 1881 the village was a township in the parish of Adlingfleet{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12603|title=History of Fockerby, in North Lincolnshire and West Riding|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=4 May 2024}} in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and "on the west bank of the old Don River, which is now filled in and under cultivation". Lords of the manor and principal landowners were the Master and fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Chief crops grown were flax, potatoes, wheat and beans on an area of {{convert|910|acre|km2}}. Occupations at the time included a land surveyor, a tailor, a miller, and three farmers, one of whom was a landowner who lived at the Hall and employed a farm bailiff. Fockerby population in 1871 was 88.Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1881, p. 26

in 1866 Fockerby became a separate civil parish,{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10425165|title=Relationships and changes Fockerby CP/Tn through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=4 May 2024}} on 1 April 1983 the parish was abolished to form "Garthope and Fockerby".{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/goole.html|title=Goole Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=4 May 2024}} In 1971 the parish had a population of 52.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10425165/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Fockerby CP/Tn through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=4 May 2024}} From 1974 to 1996 it was in the Boothferry district and the county of Humberside.

Fockerby was once served by Fockerby railway station the terminus of a branch line from Goole.

References

External links

{{Commons category-inline|Fockerby}}

Category:Villages in the Borough of North Lincolnshire

Category:Former civil parishes in Lincolnshire

Category:Isle of Axholme