Author name: Richard Clarke

Although I have no definative evidence I think that, in this part of Worcestershire at least, the River Severn has an incised river valley. This means that the original river valley is left ‘high and dry’ when changes in sea level or earth movements cause the river to start eroding a new river valey within […]

Today’s photo shows the hillside beside the lane leading from Hallow, past the ‘cottage’, to Camp House (s.p.b.), the lower part of the hillside showing a ripple-effect in the topsoil. These don’t qualify as ‘linchets’ (lynchets) as the bedrock isn’t chalk but are they a natural feature or evidence of past man-made terracing? I would

Today’s photo, taken from the same position as yesterday’s, shows the section of the River Severn in front of Camp House Inn (s.p.b. and its website). The building is 10 yards to the right and from it the lawn slopes down to the steps, despite this the property was last flooded in February 2020, the

Have had a ten-day break based near Worcester, hence the break in service from the Views of the Humber Estuary theme, so will try a run of daily short blogs remembering my stay. The ‘cottage’ is actually in the village of Hallow two miles north of Worcester but the footpath beside the River Severn can

The photo. above shows part of the middle reaches of the Humber Estuary looking north from the mouth of Barrow Haven on the south bank. The large white building in the distance is the Arco distribution warehouse beside the A63 and the main rail-line west from Hull, the Humber Bridge is out of the picture

Even by the 1560s (s.p.b.) there would have been far more ships sailing up and down the Humber Estuary and along the East Yorkshire coast than might be seen today, but, of course, much smaller in size. Burleigh’s map shows this by the many ships shown on his map (s.p.b.), most of them three-masted rather