Author name: Richard Clarke

Although strata of coal and chalk dip far below the surface the drift geology of Holderness is glacially deposited boulder clay. Two questions need some sort of an answer – What is clay? and what is boulder clay? Clay is a fine/dense grained soil where each particle has a moist skin. Clay tends to swell […]

Another source of evidence dealing with the history of the draining of the Hull Valley and west Holderness is the book the cover of which is shown above, Becks, Banks, Drains and Brains, The Drainage History of the River Hull Valley – this published in 2013 by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council. Given a

The extract from Robert Morden’s map of the East Riding published 1695, see above, makes the point clearly (s.p.b.). A series of rivers in central Holderness flowed west-south-west to become tributaries of the River Hull even though the sources of these rivers were close to the coastline. In south Holderness a series of streams flowed

It follows from what was stated at the end of the last blog that the pre, or inter, glacial coastline with the sea lapping at the base of the dip slope of the Yorkshire Wolds that here might be the remnants of a low cliff-line at these points – indeed this is so, roughly corresponding

Apologies to any regular readers for the month+ delay in completing this series of blogs initially centering on my extended article of similar title. I have experienced some ill health and have had to focus on preparing my contributions to the national Heritage Week events in Hull – second illustrated talk on Thursday 16th, 10am

The chart above was one I complied a few years ago. The 10 regions named along the base line are the regions of which part is encompassed in the Humber Region, of these two, the Lincolnshire Wolds and the Yorkshire Wolds, have already been covered by this series of blogs. The side-line identifies 10 types