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Sunk Island is a Crown Estate village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies south of Ottringham and to the north of the Humber Estuary. The Greenwich Meridian passes through the east of the parish.
According to the 2011 UK census, Sunk Island parish had a population of 228, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 224.
By the reign of Charles I of England, it was said to form a island, 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 in 1831. The island has an area of .
There is an account of the island from 1711 by the Reverend Francis Brokesby of Shottesbrooke, which was reproduced in 1799."Sunk Island", Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette, 9 February 1799, p7 This account was originally written as a contribution to Leland's Itinerary, vol vi, p96. "The Island of Sunk, in Humber, figured in the map of the East-Riding of Yorkshire, in the last edition of The Brittania, and indeed could not be in those of William Camden setting forth, because not then nor many years after in being. It was spoken of as a novelty when I first went into Yorkshire, forty four years ago. A little after which time it was bestowed on Colonel Anthony Gilby, then Deputy-Governor of Hull, by a grant from King Charles II. It is reported to be at first a great bank of sand, (of which there are still many to be seen in Humber at low water) that at thereat other mud and mattter stopt; and then still more and more by degrees, until it arrived at its present bigness."
The Reverend Brokesby then gives an account from someone who lived on the Island, as follows:
A fort was built at the outbreak of the First World War.
Today, the settlement consists of a church, a few houses and various . Cottages were built 1855–7 by Samuel Sanders Teulon.
The parish church of the Holy Trinity, designed by Ewan Christian in the 1870s,
(2025). 9780300095937, Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300095937
is a Grade II listed building.
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