Modern Marfleet is an area within the built up area of Kingston upon Hull on the eastern side of the River Hull – it consists of remnants of the former village, including the historic church, surrounded mainly by industrial buildings and port-side warehousing.

[1] Marfleet is located on low-lying ground – the area is all below 5 metres (16 ft) above sea level.

[9] The church in the 1840s was a slated roofed brick building with buttresses, with a wooden cupola at the western end.

[10] A twelve sided turf maze of the Chartes type once existed in the area, known as the Walls of Troy, near the Humber banks, it was destroyed sometime in the mid 19th century.

[13] In the mid 19th century Marfleet consisted of a few farms; the railway station; a Wesleyan Methodist chapel; the church (St Peter's) and its parsonage; and an inn, the Wheelwright's Arms (later Marfleet New Inn[14]) on the Hull and Hedon Trust turnpike road – at this time the road was 500 feet (150 m) or less from the Humber Estuary itself.

[14] Following the construction of the new dock there was extensive development around Marfleet, including extensive railway sidings for the dock; there was also new housing around Frodsham Street and Ceylon Street, west and south of the village; additionally Back Lane had been straightened or widened, and renamed Marfleet Avenue; other developments included a brickworks, church institute, school, and other factory works.

[23][24] During the Second World War the area, specifically the docks, was bombed during the Hull Blitz – Fenner's factory was destroyed in 1941, and rebuilding began 1947.

[19] By 1950 and more housing had been built – on Marfleet Avenue, and along Hedon Road (the former turnpike) – most of the development had taken place to the south-west of the church; to the east the landscape was still essentially rural.

To the north-west the urban spread of Hull had encroached on the village – Preston Road and its associated estate had begun development in the 1920s east of Southcoates – by 1938 the new estate had reached the north-western side of the Holderness railway line, and a new straight section of Marfleet Lane had been built connecting Preston Road to Marfleet Avenue via a flyover bridge crossing the railway.

[25] Prefab housing was built along Hedon Road east of Marfleet after the Second World War.

In the decade after the end of that war several large factories were established to the east, north of Hedon Road, including a typewriter works (Imperial Typewriters, est.1954, closed c. 1975[26][27]); a Cod Liver Oil factory (British Cod Liver Oil Producers Ltd., later Seven Seas, est.1935, closed c. 2015[28][29][30]); and, to the far east, adjacent west of the Old Fleet an Engineering works (Priestmans, est.