November 2021

Today’s picture is a photo, presumably taken from a crane gib, of the excavation of what might be called Wallingfen’s celebrity. About 2400 years ago a huge, hollowed-out log-boat sank in a channel in the marsh not far from the current course of the River Foulness. In 1984 it was fortunate that archaeologists were field

As one moves west across the Humber Region the bedrocks get older, therefore the bedrock of Wallingfen and the eastern Vale of York and Vale of Trent was laid-down in the Triassic geological period between roughly 250 and 200 million years ago. This geological period followed the largest mass extinction of flora and fauna known

The photo above (also used yesterday) shows St. John’s church, sited between North Cliffe and South Cliffe. Built in 1873 in the Early English style of architecture it was commissioned by Samuel Fox, a Sheffield ironmaster, who had purchased the Cliffe estate. The nearby estate cottages are also of this time as are some of

Wallingfen is the name given to the south-east ‘bit’ of the Vale of York. For the purpose of this blog it can be defined as the area bounded in the north by the pre-motorway A63 through the villages of Newport and Gilberdyke, to the south and west by the River Ouse and to the east

The above photo shows the linear lowland between the two naturally occuring ranges of vegetated sand dunes, as viewed north with Cleethorpes Leisure Centre in the distance (s.p.b.). The flora in the lowland is non-saline whereas that of the dune ranges is dominated by wind and salt resistant species. The concrete footpath (s.p.b.) is off

Today’s illustration is a diagrammatic map of the Lincolnshire Marsh coastline between Cleethoepes and Donna Nook and is scanned from a chapter called ‘The Lonely Lands’ in the booklet by Larry Malkin ‘Wavelength Wanderings Along the Humber Estuary’ (1992). In fact the boundary between the two-tier unitary authority of North-East Lincolnshire and the three-tier county