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Village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Willerby and Kirk Ella railway station opened in 1885 as part of the Hull and Barnsley Railway which passed the main village close by on the southern edge. |group="note" |name="manor" and the Grange, north of the village. A new Methodist chapel and schoolroom were constructed between 1897 and 1900. The beehive manufacturing company Yorkshire Apiary Company based in Willerby was commissioned to produce temporary buildings in the aftermath of the Second World War; the company, Willerby Caravan Company Ltd., (founded 1944, since 1996 Willerby Holiday Homes) was located on Main Street, the company later relocated to Hedon Road, Kingston upon Hull. In 1959 Willerby and Kirk Ella station closed, Part of the route of the line was used (1970) to construct the B1232 forming a bypass for the A164 (Beverley) road, bypassing Willerby village. Willerby Carr Lane County Primary School was established in the 1930s. In 1960 Willerby County Secondary School (now the lower school of Wolfreton School) was officially opened, though construction and extension continued through the 1960s and early 1970s. A third Methodist chapel, and the Anglican church of St Luke, were also constructed in the late 1960s. The Wolfreton school and six form college was demolished and rebuilt at the Willerby site as a three storey building beginning 2015. The former upper school Kirk Ella school was made surplus to requirements by the rebuild. (The new school opened in September 2016.) Between 2014 and 2015 a flood alleviation scheme, the Willerby and Derringham Bank Flood Alleviation Scheme, was constructed in the parish, built in response to the 2007 United Kingdom floods. The scheme consisted of upgrades to the drainage system (Phase 1), and four storage lagoons (Phase 2). Three storage lagoons with total capacity of around were constructed near the A164 at Willerby, and a fourth south east of Haltemprice Priory on the eastern edge of the parish. The total cost of the scheme was over £10 million. In 2015 planning permission was given for 130 homes west of Great Gutter Lane, work on the development, "West Hill", started in August 2016.

Wolfreton was a small hamlet approximately north of the old village centre of Anlaby, on Wolfreton Road connecting Anlaby to Willerby Carr Lane (now Carr Lane). In the Domesday Book it was mentioned as Uluardune. In the 1850s it consisted only of few buildings including an Inn, the Springhead Inn, there was also a farm "Wolfreton farm" at the junction of Wolfreton Road with Willerby Carr Lane. and a new larger Springhead Inn had been built to the north of the original. By 1926 additional terraced housing had been built Wolfreton Villas, as well as housing along the section of Wolfreton Road to Anlaby. Springhead Halt railway station was built in the 1920s near to the crossing of Wolfreton Lane by the railway. Housing development off the new (1920s) Kingston Road between Hull and Willerby began to encroach on the hamlet by the middle of the 20th century. As of 2006 Wolfreton continues to be marked as a place on Ordnance Survey maps. the Haltemprice and Howden Conservative party branch is based in Willerby, on Main Street. The village lies within the East Riding of Yorkshire Council electoral ward of 'Willerby and Kirk Ella'. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 13,578.

The village of Willerby forms an outermost western suburb of Hull, separated by non agricultural green space including allotments, playing fields, and Springhead Park Golf Club. In the second half of the 20th century urban development became contiguous between the villages of Willerby, Kirk Ella to the south and Anlaby to the south east. The northern half of the parish remains in agricultural use, and includes Haltemprice Priory farm, which contains archaeological remnants of the Augustinian Haltemprice Priory. which houses a Waitrose supermarket (formerly Safeway, 2004). Willerby has two hotels, converted from late 19th century houses, "The Grange", now the Grange Park Hotel a reduction on the 2001 UK census figure of 8,056.