Author name: Richard Clarke

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

Today’s photo, taken while standing at the base of the Humber bank and looking south, shows part of the expanse of Goxhill ‘Marsh’. From the top of the clay bank and turning to face north the view couldn’t be more different with Hull’s Humber frontage seeming to be so close, this an example of the

Beyond the end point of the Lincolnshire Marsh (s.p.b.) and beyond the neighbouring post-industrial site (s.p.b.) the ‘Marsh’ widens. The aerial photo shown above was reproduced on the cover of the book named and shows the next post-industrial area. This industry was directly connected to the drift geology of the ‘Marsh’ as the silt was