Hessle (/ˈhɛzəl/) is a town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, 5 miles (8 kilometres) west of Kingston upon Hull.

[4] Hessle Police Station, which closed in 2014, is next door to the town hall at the top of South Lane and the corner of Ferriby Road.

Before 1897, there was a shipyard building wooden boats, but it was then bought by Henry Scarr who moved there from Beverley, where he had previously been in partnership with his brother Joseph.

[9] It was the largest shipyard in Hessle, building vessels such as Loch Riddon, a roll-on/roll-off ferry launched in 1986, and one of four built for Caledonian MacBrayne for use in the Hebrides.

The location is now used as offices, car sales buildings and a dock for scrap metal and other materials for dispatch to other areas, or to be recycled.

Chalk-quarrying was a major industry at Hessle into the 20th century and quarries can still be seen in the west of the town, the largest being the Humber Bridge Country Park, which is a popular tourist attraction.

The local MP, Alan Johnson, as well as representatives of the Environment Agency, East Riding of Yorkshire Council and the Flood Forum were among the speakers at the resident meetings.

As a result of consultation with the residents, the Environment Agency promoted a flood storage scheme which was constructed in a field off Beverley Road in Hessle from 2010 to 2011.

The project known as a flood water attenuation scheme involved identifying a field immediately upstream of the urban area, this was then excavated below natural ground level to a depth of around 6 feet (1.8 metres).

A flow control structure was built on the downstream end of the watercourse and the bank of the Western Drain was lowered on the West Side.

The storage area remains dry for the majority of the time and looks from the road side to be a paddock, albeit lower than surrounding fields.

Even in the earliest reports, there are churchwardens concerns over noisy and drunken behaviour "particularly of the young men of Hull" who visited the parish.

Previous feasts include one which occurred in July 2006, which succeeded in attracting over 5,000 local residents and visitors to the area and was an entertaining day of charitable money raising, family fun and live music.

The event was partly-funded and majorly sponsored by Kingston Communications and Yorkshire Water – companies working in the area at the time.

On the feast day, a world record for "poppadom stacking" was broken on the Weir by the Indian takeaway Jolsha, officiated by the local MP Alan Johnson.

Following on from the Weir is Tower Hill Park, which was mainly occupied by the army who had assault courses and climbing walls, which, as in previous years, focused on activities for the younger generations.

The event was majorly sponsored by KCFM and Hull Colour Pages, with additional funding from the local town council.

The 2012 Hessle Feast was timed to take place on the Sunday of the weekend of celebrations for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II in June 2012.