May 2021

The last of the four sections of John Scott’s navigational map (1734) of the Humber Estuary shows the top part of mouth of the Estuary, The map extending as far south as ‘Donner Ness’ (now Donna Nook) on the Lincolnshire coast just east of the village of ‘North Sommer Coates’ (now North Somercotes). This raises […]

This third extract from Scott’s 18th century navigational map shows the area of the lower Humber Estuary between Grimsby on the south bank and Easington on the north. It shows the then Sunk Island to be an inhabited island surrounded by vast mudflats at low tide with a shallow but navigable channel (drawing of a

Another view from the same point as two blogs back, view north-north-east across the Estuary to the southern Yorkshire Wolds beyond. The farm-house and buildings centre known as ‘Poor Farm’, not because of the poverty of the farmer but rather because it was owned by the Bluecoat Charity, an old charity which provided accommodation for

Today’s blog picture shows the middle reaches of the Humber Estuary as represented on Scott’s map of 1734. If just two references are used to define the Humber – upper and lower – then Hull is the dividing point. Shown clearly is the ‘dog-leg bend in the Estuary, this an unusual feature which I am

Following on from the last blog (extract of the upper-Estuary from Scott’s map of the Humber Estuary) today’s view looking west-north-west, shows most of the upper Estuary, not quite to Trent Falls, as seen from the west end of Westfield Road in the parish of Barton on Humber. The hedgerow crossing left to right forms

For today’s blog, and returning to the above theme, am showing an extract from John Scott’s navigational map of the Humber Estuary printed in 1734. Three or four further extracts will follow.This section of Scott’s map shows the ‘upper’ Estuary (landward end). Scott’s navigational map was the earliest one to show details of the upper