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Marfleet
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English
Proper noun
en eastern suburb city/Kingston upon Hull co/East Riding of Yorkshire cc/England OS grid ref TA1429.
en 1842 John Timperley s:An Account of the Harbour and Docks at Kingston-upon-Hull The river Hull, according to Mr. Tickell, the historian of the town, formerly discharged itself into the Humber between Dryrpool and Marfleet, and that part of the present river usually called the Old Harbour, was originally no more than an open drain cut by Lord Sayer of Sallon, for the purpose of draining the country.
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