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4 unusual facts about Willerby


Glass Shadows

The album was recorded at Fairview Studios, in Willerby, Hull, where the band worked with old friend John Spence, engineer of many early Mostly Autumn records.

Ken Wagstaff

In November 2002, Wagstaff celebrated his 60th birthday at the Ramada Jarvis Hotel in Willerby with 350 friends, including players from the Hull City 1965–66 Third Division championship team.

Willerby

Willerby, North Yorkshire, a small village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire

Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village and civil parish located on the western outskirts of the city of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire


Anlaby with Anlaby Common

The parish borders Willerby and Kirk Ella to the north, Swanland to the west, Hessle to the south, and the unparished area of Hull to the east.

Yorkshire Wolds

Recently excavated long barrows at Fordon on Willerby Wold and at Kilham have been carbon dated to around 3700 B.C. A well-known round barrow of this period is the monumental Duggleby Howe, at the western end of the Great Wolds Valley, partially excavated in 1890 by J.R. Mortimer.


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