Author name: Richard Clarke

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

Above is a photo of part of an exhibit about fishing in Holderness taken in the Hull and East Riding Museum. The Bulletin (s.p.b.s) concludes with what I always think is a good example of not taking place-names at face-value. Skipsea, Hornsea, Withernsea and Kilnsea are by the sea – but when these place-names were

The sketch above is taken from the Bulletin (s.p.b.s) and given the caption ‘Fishing the mere in medieval times’. One point made in the Bulletin (s.p.b.s) is that the meres would have provided a range of resources for local settlers, reeds, wildfowl and fish (potentially). Later fish provided a staple food for ‘In the Church