Author name: Richard Clarke

Today’s blog is taking stock – of the 24 blogs under this heading 10 were about the chalk rock country (20/7/’21 to 11/8/’21) and 14 about Holderness (14/9/’21 to 18/10/’21). Referencing back to my chart reproduced on 11/08/’21 (which, incidentally, shows the most common type of village on Holderness to be a ‘composite village’, my […]

I will make this the last blog on the Holderness section of the above title and I admit to drifting off theme somewhat, although the inter-connection between geology and many aspects of landscape history remains. The above photo. shows part of Barrow Blow Wells just north of Barrow on Humber village in North Lincolnshire, this

Most of the historic villages of Holderness took the form of linear settlements, i.e. building plots straddling a road or lane, or villages around a simple grid-plan, i.e. building plots alongside a routeway with the entrances to the land at the rear of the plot becoming a lane itself. Ottringham is an example of the

Hedon is/was the one town of Holderness (Withernsea and Hornsea were certainly villages up until the coming of their railways, now long gone, they remain as small towns with their secondary schools each having a considerable proportion of students from the surrounding rural area). Hedon, like Barton, was a medieval new town created by Lords

Today’s photo shows the underside of a misericord cleverly carved to show a seasonal scene, such carvings often showed a scene for each season, even a scene for each month of the year. Here an autumnal scene – a man knocking acorns from an oak tree to feed the swine (pigs) grazing on the floor

Professor English starts her Chapter 5 with some statements about Holderness’ basic geology, as has been done here over the last few blogs. She then goes on to that line of thought which is always so interesting; that being to come to reasonable speculations about the pre-historic flora, fauna and landscape. Mesolithic Holderness might be