Flixborough

Flixborough

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On the 1 June 1974 Flixborough was at the centre of the UK's worst industrial accident when the Nypro Works chemical plant was devastated by an explosion in what is known as the Flixborough disaster. Twenty eight people died and more than 100 were injured, with around 100 homes in the village itself being destroyed or badly damaged.

Origin of the name

Flixborough has had many different spellings through the centuries, from Flichesburg in the Domesday Book to Flikesburg, Flyxburgh and Flixburrow. Eminson suggests that the first section of the name is an early form of the word cliff and as the original settlement stood on a sloping cliff overlooking the River Trent the village's name can be translated as "fortified dwelling on the cliff slope". [Eminson, T.B.F. "Place and River Names of the West Riding of Lindsey, Lincolnshire". and Mills, A.D. "A Dictionary of English Place Names".]

Anglo-Saxon Flixborough

The remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement in the parish of Flixborough were excavated by Humberside Archaeology Unit between 1989 and 1991 [ [http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=221,105088&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL Hull City Council : Humber field archaeology ] ] . The settlement was located 8 kilometres to the south of the Humber estuary, overlooking the floodplain of the Trent. During the two year programme, an unprecedented Middle to Late Saxon rural settlement sequence was uncovered, dating between the early 7th and early 11th centuries AD. It is particularly exceptional because of the association of 40 buildings, floor surfaces and massive refuse dumps [ Loveluck, C.P. and Dobney, K.M., 1998: "Flixborough", in S. Ellis and R. Van De Noort, eds., 'Wetland Heritage of the Ancholme and Lower Trent valleys – An Archaeological Survey', pp. 159 - 163, Humber Wetlands Project Research Report No. 3, Hull: English Heritage/University of Hull.] [Loveluck, C and Dobney, K. 2001. "A match made in heaven or a marriage of convenience?" pp 149-175. In Albarella, U (ed) "Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose". Kluwer Academic Publishers.]

Entry from "Kelly's Trade Directory" for 1900 [in the public domain]

Population figures (1801 - 1991)

References

ee also

*Glanford Power Station
*Flixborough Disaster

External links

* [http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/archaeology/flixboro.htm Flixborough Anglo-Saxon Settlement, North Lincolnshire]


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