Last Thursday covered the penultimate stretch of the River Hull bank, that being from Wilfholme Landing upstream to the mouth of the Driffield Canal. The above image is of ‘Corps Landing’ today, by kind permission of the local farmer. Traditionally this was a landing point for goods ordered by Wolds dip-slope farmers and by estate managers on the High Wolds. Goods such as timber (soft wood or ‘deal’) for fencing was shipped up the River Hull from Hull Docks.
Footpath past the artificial lakes, extraction plant and nature reserve of Top Hill Low is along the side of Barmston Drain, not the River itself. Iron road bridge and lots of moorings at Struncheon Hill Farm (single track and the only vehicle bridge over the River between Hull Bridge, Beverley and Wansford near Driffield) and metal footbridge opposite Emmotland, this across the upper River Hull and enabling the walk beside ‘Frodingham Beck’ to the mouth of the Driffield Canal. Land thereabouts much lower than level of water in the River Hull, complex drainage channels needed. Fine day but strong cold south-south-west wind.
Sadly evidence at almost all visible farms of intensive pig rearing, occasional shrieks of the imprisoned creatures carried on the wind.