Uncategorised

The map on p. 25 of Jones, N.V. A Dynamic Estuary: Man, Nature and the Humber (Hull University Press, 1988) shows the stages by which mudflats around Sunk Island were ‘reclaimed’ between the 1760s and 1897. The process by which this was done was exactly the same as that employed by the Medieval Cistercian monks […]

Today’s illustration is again taken from Sheppard, T. The Lost Towns of the Yorkshire Coast, (p. 45, 1912) (my copy is a reprint) and shows the successions of land reclaimed from the Humber mudflats along the north bank of the Humber Estuary (south coastline of Holderness), this is the land that came went and came

Today’s image is from page 49 of Sheppard, T. ‘The Lost Towns of the Yorkshire Coast’, (London, 1912), a misleading title as be is concerned with those of the Holderness coast, lost over tome as a result of coastal erosion. The north bank of the Humber Estuary is part of the Yorkshire coastline (although strictly

Holderness, in the south-east corner of East Yorkshire, is an area created by post-glacial deposition. Before the last glacial period, usually called the Devensian, the area that is now Holderness was a shallow bay in the sea that was to become known as the German Sea until renamed North Sea during the Great War. The

Another recent walk, this time along the west bank of the River Ouse at Goole and Hook, but not including Goole church which I have written about before. The riverside area of Goole is a pleasant housing area where the majority of residents tend their gardens well, looking down on them from the clay bank.

Another recent walks incorporating a visit to a parish church open to the public most days was around the part of Elloughton that includes the golf course. Starting at the road junction opposite the United Reformed chapel the route goes south beside the road that leads to the centre of Brough, on the east side