Welcome to Ferriby

The sparkling rich history that put East Yorkshire village on the map

the discovery of the Ferriby boats on the Ferriby foreshore by Bill and Ted Wright, in 1937, put North Ferriby on the international map.

Archaeologists dated the vessels to the early Bronze Age c.2000 BC making them the oldest surviving prehistoric plank-built boats in england and comparable to surviving egyptian examples.

Pre-Roman Settlement linked across the humber estuary by river crossings from North to South Ferriby banks. The arrival of the Romans who chose Brough for their settlement, suggested that the water channels no longer favoured Ferriby and the place declined.

The first wave of early Danish settlement arrived in the area about 876 AD, settling in groups under command of their leaders, each ship set up a village, Ferebi , North Ferriby would have been the Chief settlement of the area. “Ferriby” is s Danish name – Ferja bi: place of the ferry.

The medieval Priory, was founded by the de Vescy family circa 1160, it