History
Sunk Island originated as a sand bank in the Humber Estuary, by the reign of Charles I of England, it was said to form a seven acre island, one-and-a-half mile from the mainland. From 1663, the land around it was gradually drained, and by the mid-18th century, the channel separating it from the shore had entirely silted up. It was parished in 1831.
A fort was built at the outbreak of the First World War.
Today, the settlement consists of a church, a few houses and various farms. Cottages were built 1855-7 by Samuel Sanders Teulon.
The parish church of Holy Trinity, designed by Ewan Christian in the 1870s, is a Grade II listed building.
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