On Thursday 3rd July decided to do a testing walk from Pocklington to, and round, Kilnwick Percy estate which would have made it a circular walk. The weather forecast predicted a cloudy afternoon, which was good given all the baking hot weather of late. The Explorer map 294 showed two footpaths climbing up the wold […]

There can be no doubt that memories play tricks with the truth. One thing I remember from school days is watching the state funeral of Winston Churchill on the black and white screen of our little television in our small back room (the television was actually a big chunky thing but the screen was small,

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