St. Augustine’s church is one of the very big parish churches on the north bank of the Humberside region. Like its XXXL neighbours St. Patrich’s, Patrington and Holy Trinity, Hull (Hull Minster) it was never a monastic church whereas St. John’s, Beverley (Beverly Minster) was. The size of Hedon church is explained more by reference […]

Most of the man-made scars on the cliff-face in the coastline north and south of Ravenscar are not the result of the planned gardens of a new resort (s.p.b.s) but a result of the alum open-cast mining along and above the cliffs. Certainly in the 18th and early 19th centuries alum quarrying was a major

Todays photo shows a closer view of part of the moat and motte at Bransholme Castle.Over the centuries a gradually more comprehensive network of drains across Holderness will have resulted in the boulder clays of Holderness in the moats drying more quickly than before and this will have affected water levels in historic moats unless

The photo above shows a location just beyond the east Hull/Sutton boundary known as Swine Castle or Bransholme Castle. It stands beside the disused Hull – Hornsea rail line, now a public right of way and cycle way. Below the shrubs in the middle ground is a moat that appears to have defended a central

Molly standing in front of a bed of ladies bedstraw.The third property at risk in Cottingham according to English Heritage Heritage at Risk Register is a detached property on the north side of Thwaite St. called Thwaite Hall. In Pevsner (s.p.b.) it is described as ‘early 19th century’ whereas the Register dates it to the

Despite my last sentence in the last blog I have decided to stick with the above title for now, covering the Humberside region, and come back to Beverley Road, Hull at a later date.Three of the posts on the English Heritage ‘Heritage at Risk Register’ are for Cottingham, although one is just outside the parish