New Holland is a village,

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and

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on the

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estuary in

North Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 167,446 in the 2011 census. The borough includes the towns of Scunthorpe, Brigg, Haxey, Crowle, Epworth, Bottesford, Kirton in Lindsey and Bart ...

, England. In 2001 it had a population of 955, increasing marginally to 970 at the 2011 census.

History

New Holland was established in the early 19th-century. It was initially the site of a small ferry site, but this grew in size over the early decades of the century. The

Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed in 1847 when the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway joined with authorised but unbuilt railway companies, forming a proposed network from Manchester to Grimsb ...

company established the Lincoln Castle Hotel (then as the "Yarborough Arms") and the terraced houses in Manchester Square. In 1870-1872

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described the village in his ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'':

HOLLAND (NEW), a sea port village in Barrow-upon-Humber parish, Lincoln; on the river Humber, and on the Grimsby and Sheffield Junction railway, opposite Hull, 4 miles E by N of Barton-upon-Humber. It has a station on the railway, a post office under Hull, a steamferry to Hull, a coast guard station, a national school, and a Wesleyan chapel; and the school-room is used as a chapel of ease. The pop lationin 1851, was 401, and was then rapidly increasing.

Ferry

New Holland is the former embarkation point for the

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's ferry service to Victoria Pier, Kingston upon Hull. The service was operational from 1820 to 1981, when the Humber Bridge opened. There were three

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built

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s used on the route: the PS Tattershall Castle, now a

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pub and restaurant moored at the Embankment, the

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which served a similar purpose at

Grimsby Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is north-east of Lin ...

until 2006, and has since been scrapped, and the PS Wingfield Castle, which returned to

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where it was built, and where it is now a museum ship.

Port

The port of New Holland handles mostly bulk cargo in two locations: first, the small tidal dock, built about 1848 with the coming of the railway, and second, New Holland Pier, the former terminal for the ferry to Hull. The tidal dock is almost entirely used for the import of timber from Scandinavia, Russia and the

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, particularly the ports of Hamina (Finland),

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(Sweden), St.Petersburg (Russia),

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(Estonia) and

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(Latvia). Occasional imports of steel products come from the near continent. The tidal dock generally only accommodates one vessel at a time. New Holland Pier, with berths for three ships, is capable of accommodating larger vessels through its location in the deeper part of the channel. Since the early 1980s it has been used for the import and export of bulk cargo between the UK and parts of Scandinavia and Europe, the

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and North Africa. The village and port is served by

New Holland railway station New Holland railway station is a single-platform station which serves the village of New Holland in North Lincolnshire, England. The station is situated on the Barton line west of , and all trains serving it are operated by East Midlands Ra ...

, which opened in 1981, replacing separate stations at and which both opened in 1848.

References

{{Authority control Villages in the Borough of North Lincolnshire Ports and harbours of Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire Ports and harbours of the Humber Port cities and towns of the North Sea 19th-century establishments in England