Flixborough
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Flixborough is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 1,664. It is near the River Trent, north-west from Scunthorpe. The village is noted for the 1974 Flixborough disaster. Flixborough is in the Burton upon Stather and Winterton ward of North Lincolnshire Council, and its boundary covers the southern part of Normanby Park. Its Grade II listed Anglican church is dedicated to All Saints. The village public house is The Flixborough Inn on High Street.
Flixborough is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 1,664. It is near the River Trent, north-west from Scunthorpe. The village is noted for the 1974 Flixborough disaster. Flixborough is in the Burton upon Stather and Winterton ward of North Lincolnshire Council, and its boundary covers the southern part of Normanby Park. Its Grade II listed Anglican church is dedicated to All Saints. The village public house is The Flixborough Inn on High Street.
History
Flixborough has had many different spellings through the centuries, from "Flichesburg" in the Domesday Book of 1086 to Flikesburg, Flyxburgh and Flixburrow. Eminson suggests that the first part 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". The remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement in the parish of Flixborough were excavated by Humberside Archaeology Unit between 1989 and 1991. The settlement was located 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. A notable son of Flixborough is Sir Edmund Anderson, who was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and tried Mary, Queen of Scots. Flixborough is one of the Thankful Villages that suffered no fatalities during the First World War. The village was featured on Darren Hayman's album, Thankful Villages Volume 2.
Flixborough explosion
On Saturday 1 June 1974 at 16:53 Flixborough was at the centre of the UK's worst industrial accident when the Nypro Works chemical plant was devastated by an explosion, known as the Flixborough disaster. The plant manufactured Caprolactam. Escaping cyclohexane formed a flammable vapour cloud and ignited. Twenty-eight people died and more than 100 were injured, with around 100 homes in the village itself being destroyed or badly damaged. There is a memorial to the disaster.
See also
Glanford Power Station
Bibliography
The Early Medieval Settlement Remains From Flixborough, Lincolnshire. The Occupation Sequence, c. AD 600–1000. Excavations at Flixborough. Vol. 1. Ed. by Christopher Loveluck and David Atkinson. Oxford, Oxbow, 2007. Life and Economy at Early Medieval Flixborough, c. AD 600–1000: The Artefact Evidence. Excavations at Flixborough, Volume 2. Ed. by D. H. Evans and Christopher Loveluck. Oxford, Oxbow, 2009. Farmers, Monks and Aristocrats: The Environmental Archaeology of an Anglo-Saxon Flixborough. Excavations at Flixborough. Vol. 3. Edited by James Barrett, Keith Dobney, Deborah Jacques and Cluny Johnstone. Oxford, Oxbow, 2007. Rural Settlement, Lifestyles and Social Change in the Late First Millennium AD. Anglo-Saxon Flixborough in its Wider Context. Excavations at Flixborough. Vol. 4. Edited by Christopher Loveluck. Oxford, Oxbow, 2007.
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