This photo shows part of the field at Cadwell looking west to Sluice Road, South Ferriby. The cement works shown is no longer in production. The grassy field side can be walked but the low cliffs here are boulder clay and readily undermined in high tides. A farm track off picture left and running parallel […]
Following the last blog here a photo looking south from Brough Foreshore across the upper Humber Estuary to the village of Whitton. On the right the Lincolnshire Heights limestone escarpment tapering down to Trent Falls (off picture to the right), while the viilage of Alkborough stands about a mile south of the field of oilseed
My failure last year to re-do in sections a revisit walk around the Humber Estuary north and south banks is now coming back to haunt me. I didn’t get round to re-recording most of the south bank and now would loke to include them in this section. My previous photographic record of the Humber south
A very informative website entitled ‘Roads of Roman Britain, A Gazetteer’ gives lots of details about Roman roads in different regions. The Yorkshire region is shown as having had many. One interesting reference given is where the Rev. E. Maude Cole contributed an article on the Roman Road from Stamford Bridge to Brough in the
Today’s photo shows part of Brough Haven as seen from the end of south Humber bank having walked from Crabley Farm. It was in this immediate area that the Roman legions in the first century chose as their docking point having crossed the Humber Estuary from the point now called Old Winteringham. To what extent
Today’s photo shows the majestic and highly ornate east face of York cathedral/minster from College Green, a sort of pocket park in York. An issue raised in the last blog/post was that of the adaptation of the Roman overlords to the landscape they encountered. to be continued.