Filey

Filey is a small town in the Borough of Scarborough the English county of North Yorkshire. The resort is located on the North Sea coast in the extreme west of the county had a total of 6,819 inhabitants according to the census of 2001.

Geography

Filey is the eastern end of the Cleveland Way, a long-distance trail that starts in Helmsley and the North York Moors affected. A second long-distance trail, the Yorkshire Wolds Way, leads from here on the Yorkshire Wolds by Hessle on the north bank of the Humber. In addition, the Great Yorkshire Bike Ride runs from Wetherby here.

History

The town's name suggests a Anglian origin, whereby a settlement of the area probably since about 800 AD.

The local museum Fileys located in the oldest building in the city; it was built in 1696. For a long time Filey only a small fishing and farming village with a few hundred inhabitants. In the 18th century the town developed into a recreational area for the people of Scarborough. In the early 19th century, the first dedicated building was designed with the Foord Hotel. With the continuous opening of the Yorkshire Coast Line 1847 Filey obtained a rail connection, which accelerated the growth of the place.

More than 40 years of Butlin 's holiday park was an important source of income for the city. The construction of the park began in 1939, but was then during the 2nd World War as an RAF Hunmanby Moor converted to a military base. After the war, the site was then, however, used as a holiday resort, and got 1947 its own rail connection through the construction of a branch line of the railway line that already exist. The late 1950s, up to 10,000 tourists visited annually the holiday park. After already had to shut down the branch line in 1977, the resort was closed in 1984 due to low visitor numbers.

Traffic

Filey is located on the A165 ( Burniston - Hull) and is the starting point of the A1039 towards Malton and York.

The city has a railway station on the Yorkshire Coast Line from Scarborough to Hull.

South of Filey From 1947 to 1977 there was a short spur route to the station Filey Holiday Camp, which consisted of two island platforms with four tracks. Was he initially used actively during the summer months by travelers, so took his importance due to the increasing motorization of the population in the aftermath noticeably from. For economic reasons, the station had to be shut down eventually; the last train wrong on July 17, 1977. Nowadays the platforms as well as isolated lampposts are still visible.

Personalities

• Leo Blair ( b. 1923 ), professor of law at the University of Durham and the father of Tony Blair
• Arthur Mayo Robson (1853-1933), Surgeon