Melton, East Riding of Yorkshire

The village is bounded to the south by the A63 road, and is {{convert|0.6|mi|km|0}} north of the Humber Estuary bank. The village is on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Wolds approximately {{convert|15|to|20|m|ft|abbr=on}} above sea level, to the north-east 'Melton Hill' rises to a height of {{convert|92|m|ft|abbr=on}}. The A63 road passes east–west directly south of Melton, and effectively divides the low-lying clays of the Humber foreshore from the chalk uphills of the Wolds.Ordnance Survey, 1:25000, 2006 In 2002–03 the village became part of the South Hunsley Ward of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and within the Goole and Pocklington parliamentary constituency.{{cite book|title=Gazetteer A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets|year=2006|publisher=East Riding of Yorkshire Council|page=8}} South Hunsley School is located on the western fringes of the village.

William Melton, Archbishop of York (died 1340) is thought to have originated from Melton.{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MvDHEwAY464C| title =Biographia juridica: a biographical dictionary of the judges of England from the conquest to the present time, 1066–1870 | first= Edward |last=Foss| publisher = John Murray| year= 1870|chapter = Melton, William De (Archbishop of York)| isbn =9781404706507 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MvDHEwAY464C&pg=PA443|access-date=9 July 2013}} The land around Melton was enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1771/3.{{harvnb|Thompson|1870 |pp=3, 51}} By the beginning of the 19th century the village and environs became the dwelling place of several worthies of Kingston upon Hull; including Benjamin Blaydes (1735–1805),{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=C8fTAAAAMAAJ|title = A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland| volume =1 | first1 =John |last1 = Burke| first2= John Bernard |last2 = Burke|publisher = Henry Colburn| year= 1847| chapter = Blaydes of Ranby Hall|chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=C8fTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA109}} and J. S. Williamson at Melton Hill.{{cite book| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=CCRJAAAAMAAJ| title =The beauties of England and Wales: or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county| volume = 16 |first = John |last = Bigland|year= 1812 |at = pp. 390, also 545|chapter = North Ferriby| chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=CCRJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA543}} In 1823 the population was 107.{{cite book| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=-xgHAAAAYAAJ| title= History, directory & gazetteer, of the county of York| first = Edward |last = Baines| authorlink=Edward Baines (1774–1848)|publisher = Edward Baines| volume=2|year = 1823| chapter = Melton| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-xgHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA369|page = 369}} Melton Grange was built around 1745, Melton Hill to the higher ground north-east of the village was established in the late 1700s, Melton House was constructed around 1830;{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bcp5soQZ0OwC| title = Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, Second Edition| first1 = Nicholas |last1 = Pevsner| author-link= Nicholas Pevsner|first2 = David |last2 = Neave| publisher= Yale University Press| year = 1995| isbn = 0300095937| at = Melton, p.742}} a Roman burial was discovered near Melton House around 1840, including a gold brooch.{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2lkdAQAAMAAJ|title = The Gentleman's magazine (London, England)| volume = 14|first = Sylvanus |last = Urban |publisher = William Pickering / John Bowyer Nichols and Son| year = 1840|page = 528}}{{#tag:ref|The 1927/9 6" to 1 mile and 25" to 1 mile Ordnance Survey map (239NW and 239.6) records an antiquity find labelled "Roman Brooch, Bead, & Human Remains found AD 1841" at the disused Greystones Pit (chalk) north-east of Melton|group="note"}}

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In 1840 the Hull and Selby Railway opened, passing Melton about {{convert|0.6|mi|km|0}} south of the village. In 1855 the land around Melton was essential rural, and used for agricultural use, with the exception of the gentrified houses and their gardens, some narrow plantations, and a small brick and tile works south of Melton Common in Melton Ings located on the bank of the Humber Estuary. The brick work's workings continued to expand in the early 1900s and had acquired a tramway system within the clay pits.Ordnance Survey, 1:10560, 1855; 1:2500, 1890–1; 1:2500, 1927 By the 1920s the tile works had closed, whilst a large scale cement industry had developed; to the north of Melton chalk was extracted at Melton Bottom Quarry,{{#tag:ref|{{coord|53.735270|-0.521811|display=inline|type:landmark|name = Melton Bottom Quarry}}, Melton Bottom Quarry, established 1921 by W. Marshall of Hessle, supplied chalk to Humber Cement Works and later began producing agricultural (1937) and putty (1946) grade chalks. Ownership passed to Blue Circle (1958), later a joint venture with Croxton & Garry and then OMYA.|group="note"}} whilst south of the railway line the Humber Cement Works had been established west of Gibson Lane,{{#tag:ref|{{coord|53.718650|-0.535943|display = inline|type:landmark|name = Humber Cement Works, Earles Cement (defunct)}}, "Humber Cement Works". Established 1921 as "Humber Portland Cement Co. Ltd., original company wound up due to financial problems and from 1924 operated by G & T Earle ('Earles Cement').{{cite web| url = http://www.cementkilns.co.uk/cement_kiln_humber.html| title = Cement Kilns: Humber|first = Dylan |last = Moore| publisher =Cement Plants and Kilns in Britain and Ireland|access-date=12 July 2013}}{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XI6teEGXvG0C| title = Effects of Mergers: Six Studies| volume =2|first1= P. Lesley |last1=Cook| first2 =Ruth |last2=Cohen| publisher = Routledge, orig. George Allen and Unwin| year= 2003| orig-year= 1958|pages = 65–6| isbn = 9780415313469}}|group="note"}} the works was connected to the main railway, and served by a small railway halt Melton Halt.{{#tag:ref|Opened {{circa|1920}}. Originally named Melton Crossing Halt, later Melton Halt, financed by the Humber Cement Company for use by workers at the plant. The halt closed 1989.{{cite book| first = Martin| last = Bairstow| title = Railways in East Yorkshire| volume =2| page = 80|year = 1995| isbn = 1871944120}}{{cite web| url = http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/m/melton_halt/index.shtml|title = Disused Stations: Melton Halt| first = Mark |last = Dyson|publisher = Subterranea Britannica| work = Disused Stations| date=12 October 2010|access-date=8 July 2013}}|group="note"}} The Humber Cement Works also operated an industrial tramway south to the Humber bank, and an aerial cableway connecting the plant to a jetty on the Humber bank at West Clough.Ordnance Survey, 6" to 1 mile, 1929, sheets 239SW, 239NW

Melton was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Welton,{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13477|title=History of Melton in East Riding of Yorkshire|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=26 November 2023}} in 1866 Melton became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Welton.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10448311|title=Relationships and changes Melton CP/Ch through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=26 November 2023}} In 1931 the parish had a population of 316.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10448311/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Melton CP/Ch through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=26 November 2023}}

South of the village worker's housing was constructed in the 1920s and 30s for the Humber Cement Works and for the Capper Pass tin smelter; the Capper Pass Works was constructed in the 1930s for Capper Pass and Son to the south of the Hull and Selby railway line and directly east of Humber Cement.

The houses of Melton House and Melton Hill were demolished in the 1950s. South Hunsley School opened in 1956,{{cite news| url =http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-11363295_ITM| title = Success of South Hunsley School| newspaper = Hull Daily Mail |via =Europe Intelligence Wire| date = 20 December 2002 |access-date=8 July 2013}} on the site of the 1840 Eastdale, which was demolished in the late 1800s.{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bcp5soQZ0OwC| title = Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, Second edition|first1 =Nikolaus |last1 = Pevsner| author-link= Nicholas Pevsner | first2 = David |last2= Neave|publisher = Yale University Press| year = 1995| isbn = 0300095937|at = Welton – Perambulation, pp.740–742}} Further houses were built in the village of Melton during the 1960s, at around the same time the scope of extraction of clay and chalk around Melton Bottom Quary was considerably expanded – the worked area expanded south and west, and the Humber Cement Works clay extraction pits also expanded west into Welton Ings.Ordnance Survey, 1:10560 and 1:10000, 1956, 1970 The section of the A63 road passing south of Melton was opened in 1963.

The cement works closed in 1981; a plant supplying Calcium oxide for use in the plastics industry was established on the site in 1990.{{cite web| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702032631/http://www.omya.co.uk/C125736E002FC818/0/9ADC90BCA10173DFC125739400576150?Open®ion=Europe&country=United%20Kingdom&context=global| archive-date = 2 July 2014| url = http://www.omya.co.uk/C125736E002FC818/0/9ADC90BCA10173DFC125739400576150?Open®ion=Europe&country=United%20Kingdom&context=global| title = Omya in the United Kingdom – Humber Plant Humber Industrial Estate Gibson Lane Melton North Ferriby| work = omya.com| publisher = OMYA| url-status=live}} The Capper Pass, Melton smelting works closed and was decommissioned in the early 1990s. It was a major employer in the wider area, but also a polluter due to the nature of the work it performed; the site was thought to be responsible for a cancer cluster discovered in the west Hull area in the 1980s, as well as having affecting the health of its own employees. In the early 2000s, the site was redeveloped as open air storage and industrial warehousing.

A new grade separated junction was constructed on the A63 east of Melton in 2006/7, replacing three at-grade junctions; link roads giving access to Melton Bottom and to planned business parks south of the A63 were also built.{{cite web| url = http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/documents/POPE___A63_Melton_GSJ_OYA_Report___Final.pdf| title = One Year After Study : A63 Melton Grade Separated Junction|publisher = Highways Agency|access-date=16 December 2012|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120810121037/http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/documents/POPE___A63_Melton_GSJ_OYA_Report___Final.pdf|archive-date=10 August 2012}} Two large {{convert|100|acre|ha|abbr=on}} industrial estate/business parks Melton West and Melton Park started development south of Melton in the first decade of the 2000s;{{cite web| url = http://www.meltonwest.co.uk/index.htm| title = Meltonwest – a new 100 acre mixed use business park| work = meltonwest.co.uk| publisher = Wykeland Group| access-date = 20 February 2012| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120302083937/http://www.meltonwest.co.uk/index.htm| archive-date = 2 March 2012 }}{{cite web| url = http://www.meltonbusinesspark.co.uk/meltonpark_web/masterplan.aspx| work = melton businesspark.co.uk| publisher = St. Modwen Properties| title = St Modwen : Melton Park| access-date = 8 July 2013| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130507080137/http://www.meltonbusinesspark.co.uk/meltonpark_web/masterplan.aspx| archive-date = 7 May 2013 }} planning consent for the first phase of 'Melton West' was given in 2007,{{cite web| url = http://www.meltonwest.co.uk/news_march2007.htm| title = March 2007– Go Meltonwest : Planning Consent granted for Infrastructure and the first building at Phase 1 | work = meltonwest.co.uk| publisher = Wykeland Group|date=March 2007| access-date =20 February 2012}} with the second phase given planning consent in 2011.{{cite news| url = http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/Business-park-approval-create-1-400-jobs/story-13928117-detail/story.html| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130505114312/http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/Business-park-approval-create-1-400-jobs/story-13928117-detail/story.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = 5 May 2013| title = Business park approval could create 1,400 jobs| date = 23 November 2011| work = This is Scunthorpe| access-date = 8 July 2013}} St. Modwen Properties gained planning permission to develop the 'Melton Park' site in 2006/7,{{cite web| url =http://www.stmodwen.co.uk/media-centre/news/view/hotel-offices-and-warehousing-planned-to-launch-major-hull-scheme| title =Hotel, Offices And Warehousing Planned To Launch Major Hull Scheme| publisher =St. Modwen Properties| date =12 December 2006| access-date =9 July 2013| archive-date =15 December 2014| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20141215044543/http://www.stmodwen.co.uk/media-centre/news/view/hotel-offices-and-warehousing-planned-to-launch-major-hull-scheme| url-status =dead}}{{cite web|url = http://www.property-magazine.eu/st-modwen-prepares-start-on-melton-park-2660.html| title = St Modwen prepares start on Melton Park| date = 2 April 2007| work = property-magazine.eu|access-date=8 July 2013}} in 2011 the company announced it was planning to use part of the development site for residential development.{{cite web|url = http://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/261608-prop-residential-plan-for-melton-park.html?news_section=7| title = Residential plan for Melton Park| date = 22 December 2011| work = thebusinessdesk.com|first = James |last = Reed|access-date=12 July 2013}}{{cite news| url = http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Plans-develop-new-family-homes-business-park/story-14436489-detail/story.html| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130505070328/http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Plans-develop-new-family-homes-business-park/story-14436489-detail/story.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = 5 May 2013| title = Plans to develop new family homes in business park| date = 16 January 2012| work = This is Hull and East Riding| publisher = Northcliffe Media| access-date = 8 July 2013}}

As of 2012 the quarry at Melton Bottom is owned by OMYA and produces chalk whiting.{{cite web| url = http://www.omya.com/C125736E002FC818/0/1C017205F31C97BBC12573940058512F?Open®ion=Europe&country=United%20Kingdom| title = Omya UK Ltd., Melton, East Yorkshire| access-date = 20 February 2012| work = omya.com| publisher = OMYA| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081115125636/http://www.omya.com/C125736E002FC818/0/1C017205F31C97BBC12573940058512F?Open| archive-date = 15 November 2008| url-status = dead }} A southern working named Melton Bottom Chalk Pit is no longer worked, and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) due to its geological content.{{cite web| url = http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1003238.pdf| title = Melton Bottom Chalk Pit| work = sssi.naturalengland.org.uk| publisher = Natural England| access-date = 11 March 2013| archive-date = 23 October 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121023191421/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1003238.pdf| url-status = dead}} The working quarry is known as the Welton Wold Quarry.{{cite journal| url = http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/gcrdb/GCRsiteaccount212.pdf| publisher = via Joint Nature Conservation Committee jncc.defra.gov.uk| journal = Geological Conservation Review| volume = 23| title = British Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy (chapter 5: Northern Province, England : Melton Bottom Chalk Pit)| year = 2001| first1 = R. N.| last1 = Mortimore| first2 = C. J.| last2 = Wood| first3 = R. W.| last3 = Gallois| access-date = 23 January 2016| archive-date = 30 January 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160130075051/http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/gcrdb/GCRsiteaccount212.pdf| url-status = dead}}

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• {{cite book|url = https://archive.org/details/researchesintoh00thomgoog| title = Researches into the history of Welton and its neighbourhood | first = Thomas |last = Thompson| publisher = Leng & Co.| year = 1870}}
• {{cite book|title=Gazetteer A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets|year=2006|publisher=East Riding of Yorkshire Council|at=Melton|access-date=20 February 2012|url=http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/hyperlinks/htm_files/A-ZofTowns.pdf|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110927094736/http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/hyperlinks/htm_files/A%2DZofTowns.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 September 2011}}

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