Fockerby is a village in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east from Goole and west from the River Trent. Fockerby is part of the Isle of Axholme and close to the border with the East Riding of Yorkshire. The village is in the civil parish of Garthorpe and Fockerby, and is contiguous with the village of Garthorpe to the north-east, with which it forms one community joined by a section of road which crosses the previous course of the River Don. Street in Fockerby (Geograph 1966459)

In 1872 Fockerby was in Yorkshire, divided from Garthorpe by the "Old Don". By 1881 the village was a township in the parish of

Adlingfleet Adlingfleet is a drained, fertile, former marshland village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, that forms part of the civil parish of Twin Rivers. It is east-southeast of Goole town centre. Its sea wall along the far north-east is set ...

in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and "on the west bank of the old Don River, which is now filled in and under cultivation".

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and principal landowners were the Master and fellows of

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. Chief crops grown were

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, potatoes, wheat and beans on an area of . Occupations at the time included a land surveyor, a tailor, a miller, and three farmers, one of whom was a landowner who lived at the Hall and employed a farm bailiff. Fockerby population in 1871 was 88.'' Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1881'', p. 26 Fockerby was once served by

Fockerby railway station Fockerby railway station was a station in Fockerby, Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to ...

the terminus of a branch line from Goole.

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* Villages in the Borough of North Lincolnshire {{Lincolnshire-geo-stub