Author name: Richard Clarke

I have been up-dating the inventory of my blogs compiled between 19/02/2016 and 2/12/2021. The 600+ blogs cover a total of 188 topics, some covered by just one blog, some up to 40. Of the 188 there are 35 of which I am not too ashamed. Therefore I am going to list those 35 with […]

I compiled the bulk of this Inventory between 3/11/’20 and 11/11/’20, with a summing-up blog on 2/2/’21. So the sections unrecorded on the previous Inventory are; Disused Rail Lines as Public Rights of Way, 20 blogs, 13/11/20 – 31/12/20, Update and Overview for 2021, 6 blogs, 12/1/21 – 20/1/21, Allotments, 5 blogs, 25/1/21 – 4/2/21,

By the late 18th century Wallingfen was becoming a well known area for the cultivation of hemp, this especially so around its edge where post-enclosure drainage was beginning to have an effect. As seen from the picture above hemp is a tall crop with spiky, serated palmate leaves, it needs a plentiful supply of ground

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