Author name: Richard Clarke

About half a mile east of Hawkins Point is a monument (‘Mon’ on O.S. map and see above). The crown shown in relief shows that it is related to the fact that the Crown owns the reclaimed land of Sunk Island On the side face of the monument is a plaque etched with the following […]

At Hawkin’s Point (s.p.b.) there is no obvious reason in the landscape as to why it should be named on maps, and no information board. However, there is a line of chalk stones at the high water line which are unlikely to be a natural feature; there is a bit of an inlet and the

The third section of the south Holderness coast walked, introduced by the previous blog/post, is the bottom section of Sunk Island, the vast area of land ‘reclaimed’ from the Humber mudflats over the past few centuries. This being so the region is all but flat, the estuarine silts providing some of the most fertile arable

Just last week I, along with two friends this time, walked a third section of the south Holderness/north bank of the Humber, this time walking east from Stone Creek to Patrington Haven – for a record of the first two sections of this region walked see two blogs/posts from back in January ’23. This time

The young ash tree shown on the right above (also see It’s the trees 2) is now, cautiously, coming into leaf. It looks like it was coppiced (s.p.b.) at a young age with five equally thick branches rather than a main trunk. Why this should have been done given its location is unknown; in fact,

In the photo shown on ‘Its the Trees 2’ the bare-looking tree on the right is a young-mature ash tree. Bare-looking because ash trees are virtually the last species to come into full leaf in late spring. It use to be said that the ash was the last to get leaves and the first to