Walking west along the Humber flood bank from Crabley Farm on the left is a large linear reedbed which, along with Whitton Sand and Faxfleet Ness, form sections of one of the Humber Estuary’s nature reserves, characterised here by extensive reedbeds. The Estuary side of the reedbed is determined by the depth of water in […]

Continuing west from Brough Haven and marina along the top of the clay bank flood barrier towards Crabley Farm the Humber foreshore and bank is clearly rented-out to a local farm (probably Crabley Farm) for grazing rights. It is essential to keep dogs on a lead in such areas. In the photo above, looking east,

The photo above shows a view west from a point on the Estuary side as the walker is approaching Brough. The industrial buildings in the middle distance were built for the once aircraft/aircraft parts manufacturing business, initially serving the Blackburn Company, this taken over by Hawker Siddeley in the 1960s and in turn taken over

When writing the last blog/post, The Humber Estuary 3, I forgot to mention the Capper Pass site. Between Brickyard Lane and Welton Water is the site of the once Capper Pass non-ferrous metal refining industrial site which was developed here between the late 1930s and the early 21st century. The industrial complex included a high

Having passed the hazardous foreshore at North Ferriby walking west, west of the shelter belt (s.p.b.) the foreshore becomes much more accessible plus there is a public right of way along the top of Ferriby (North) Cliff along the field-side. Ferriby (North) Cliff is a low sandy cliff being matched exactly by the same geo-physical

Back to the focus on the Humber Estuary and in particular here the stretch of Humber bank walking west from Hessle Country Park to Brough Haven area. As previously stated for much of this route the public right of way is sandwiched between the Estuary foreshore and the rail line to Hull Paragon station. Inland,