East Yorkshire is a 930 square mile area
home to around 600,000 people
it's a low-lying rural area with only
the rolling choke hills of the world's
reaching any height its main city as the
port of Hull the other main towns being
the market time of Beverly and
bridlington on the coast spawnpoint is
made up of sand dunes with a singletrack
road going 3 and a half miles to his tip
where there is a little settlement made
up of the permanent lifeboat station and
the Humber pilots who guides shipping in
through the submerged sand banks many
people come here to watch the migratory
birds or to wander around the old
fortifications that were dug into the
sand dunes during the first world war at
the mouth of the estuary built on sand
banks can be seen bull sand fort and
hail sand thought the coast here is ever
moving moving inland valleys high spring
tides wash away around 2 metres of the
light bolduc lake that faces every year
with houses and coastal defences being
lost
there are a small number of largely
uncommercial eyes seaside towns along
this coastline at Wigan see the former
lighthouse is set well back from the
coast due to erosion it's now a museum
you can climb the stairs to the top and
look up and down the coast higher up is
horns e with its long promenade
the town became well known for its
distinctive pottery produced here until
2000 just inland is horn Sameer
the largest freshwater lake in Yorkshire
is a good place for bird-watching
fishing or sailing the biggest resort on
this part of the coast is Bridlington
here you'll find the traditional
amusements along the front from the
harbour boats take tripperz further up
the coast the Flamborough Head or
Scarborough but Bridlington is a town of
two halves about a mile inland is old
Bridlington with its narrow twisting
streets set close to the Priory founded
in 11:33 an interesting feature here is
the Prioress gatehouse the bail that now
houses a local History Museum after the
low-lying coast it is a surprise to many
people to see the white towering cliffs
of flammer ahead
this has always been an important
headland with a lighthouse to guide
shipping away from the rocks
an old beacon tower can be seen just
inland from the head close by in Philae
Bay in 1779 the British Navy engaged the
American pirate John Paul Jones his ship
the BONHOMME RICHARD was sunk today you
can have trips from north landing on the
north side to Flamborough Head here the
traditional fishing boats known as
cobbles are pushed into the sea over
wooden logs be sure to take one of the
trips to see the bird colonies nesting
in the 400 foot high cliffs if you're
lucky you might even get to see a puffin
we now turn inland to visit the world's
rollin chalk hills cut by numerous
steep-sided flat bottomed valleys
here you'll find roads snaking along the
bottom of the valleys and it'll hardly
see a car for miles you will find pretty
unsporting usual names like wet Hwang
lund and a Millington names given by the
angles that settled here
Warren Percy is a deserted medieval
village that you can now approach on
foot it was abandoned in the 16th
century due to a change in farming
practices and the Black Death you can
still wander around the church set
beside the village pond there is a
surviving custom from the same period at
Kipling Coates when every March
Britain's oldest horse races hell it's a
four mile course crossing fields and the
sides of roads as it has done ever since
1519 there are many country estates to
be found in the world's the largest is
sled Mia built by the Sykes family with
its own estate village it has two
unusual memorials the cylindrical
Waggoner's memorial is to those from
around here who fought in the First
World War and this 120 foot high
memorial is to certain Sykes it stands
on top of garden hill with fine views
are east yorkshire including the ancient
town of Beverley
at the center of Beverly Stan's the
Minster it was founded by Sanjana their
Ville in the seventh century and his
remains are buried under the nave floor
every year the anniversary of his death
on the 7th of May 721 is marked with a
service attended by civic dignitaries
from all over the area
nearby is a friary now used as a youth
hostel this was founded in the time in
the 13th century and as another church
st. mary's built in 1120 that is noted
for its carvings especially the
minstrels pillar depicting the town's
musicians and the rabbit that was the
inspiration for the white rabbit in
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland at
one time gate houses were built where
roads led into the town only one now
exists north bar that leads into
Saturday market where there is a very
ornate market cross erected in 1714
there's also a Wednesday market and the
street names such as dial Ain hen gate
and Walker gate and named after the
businesses that used to take place along
them this is a beautiful town to wander
around because it's surrounded by open
parkland managed by pasture masters who
are elected every March from an ancient
town to a new town the port of gull just
didn't exist until 1826 it was built as
a company town by the air and called a
navigation company who required port
facilities to export coal the town was
built where the navigation from West
Yorkshire meets the river is from North
Yorkshire and the river dawn from South
Yorkshire from here it's almost 50 miles
to the open sea along the Humber estuary
the town is notable for its Dutch style
buildings this is because Dutch
engineers were brought in to drain the
marshy land and canalized the river
system there's a waterways museum where
on certain days boat trips around the
port could be taken
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