[1] The area around Stallingborough may have been inhabited in prehistoric times; south-east of the village there is evidence of an Iron Age complex of enclosures.

[10] The village was also the site of a manor house and associated formal gardens (post medieval, probably early 17th century).

53°37'), located in the Ferry House on the east bank of the outlet onto the Humber of the North Beck Drain.

[18][n 1][19] In about 1887 the village included the church and vicarage, a smithy, and a Wesleyan and a Primitive Methodist Chapel, with the railway passing north of the church; the village extended to the north of the railway line, including the Green Man Inn, a manor house, and various dwellings spread along the main road.

[27] In the 1960s a number of companies (Doverstrand, Revertex, Harco) developed chemical plants producing synthetic lattices and resins at a site south-east of the Battery Works, also on the estuary foreshore.

[29] The A180 road was built in the 1970s, and passes through the north of parish,[29][30] On 14 June 1966, a Royal Air Force Vickers Varsity trainer from RAF Lindholme collided with a Cessna 337A aircraft at about 6,500 feet (2,000 m) close to the village, killing two people.

The Varsity, with three crew and three student navigators, landed in a field, with its nose and wing ripped off by a tree.

[31] In the 1990s "Dash for gas" the 1.26 GW South Humber Bank Power Station was constructed adjacent to the Synthomer chemical plant in two phases from 1997 to 1999.

In 2016 an 88 acres (36 ha) vehicle handling site, for use by Kia Motors, was officially opened at the Kiln Lane industrial estate.

[36][37] The civil parish of Stallingborough is located in the county of North East Lincolnshire between Immingham and Grimsby.

Land use is predominantly agricultural, with drained enclosed fields; near the Humber Estuary foreshore there are industrial developments.

The 1.28 GW South Humber Bank gas fired power station is adjacent to Synthomer's plant.