Match Day Thread North Ferribly United v Wrexham FC

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Nine things you might not know about Ferriby...

1 North Ferriby is a village and civil parish in the Haltemprice area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is nine miles away from the nearest big city of Hull.

2 The foreshore of North Ferriby, within the Humber estuary, is the site of the earliest sewn plank boats discovered outside Egypt. In 1931, wooden planks belonging to an ancient boat were discovered by a local man on the shore of the Humber. Two further boats have since been discovered. Estimates using radiocarbon dating have placed the origin of the boats to the Bronze Age, between 2030 and 1680 BC.

3 The first wave of Danes arrived in the area around 900 AD with each ship setting up a local village. Amongst these was what is now North Ferriby from the Danish Ferja bi (place by a ferry), which would have been the chief Danish settlement of the area and linked by ferry to South Ferriby. A wooden church was built at that time, replaced by its first stone church in 1150

4 The village was once significant for Ferriby Priory, circa 1160, of the order of knights templar, founded by Lord Eustace Broomfleet de Vesci, in the reign of King John of England. In 1200 it as appears from an ancient manuscript formerly in the possession of the late Luke Lillingston, Esq. of North Ferriby, the Owner of the priory. It was dissolved along with the lesser monasteries, in 1536.

5 The village has been the patrimonial possession of the Mortimers, the Poles, and the Bacons. It retains the elements of several elegant mansions from around 1750 as Hull merchants started to build large houses - such as Ferriby House - with cottages for workers. These include the Moss & Honeysuckle cottages in 1787 which still stand today.

6 Ferriby parish had a population of 3,893 an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 3,819 according to the 2011 UK census.The school has approximately 300 pupils.

7 In the village is a public house, the Duke of Cumberland, a British Legion club, an Italian restaurant, a fish and chip shop, a newsagent, chemist, estate agents, a squash club with three courts, post office, village hall, parish hall and three hairdressers. North Ferriby’s main shop is a Co-operative Group convenience store.

8 With the backing of the Parish Council, the Twinning Association was formed in the spring of 2003 and links North Ferriby with Le Pellerin, a French village to the south of Brittany, on the estuary of France’s longest river, the Loire.

9 Famous North Ferribians (if you can call them that), include former Hull City boss Phil Brown, Anti-Slavery Campaigner William Wilberforce and Andy Pemberton from British band Journey South (no, me neither)

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/wrexham-fc-v-north-ferriby-8928603

Bit of a stretch calling Brownie a Ferribian.

 

Ferriby's Fabulous Farewel...

 

No.

I was, particularly as I was offered seats in the Bobby Moore stand for £20, but I missed the date to buy them, then couldn't be arsed.

 

It was indeed the same deadline.

I bet my brother in law didn't tell you he's a White ****e fan?

 

Very perceptive, though he claims Leeds are still his team, he seems very much a Gooner since he started taking young Archie.

 

He is.