Spring Walk Through Flooded Nature Park | HUMBER BRIDGE COUNTRY PARK, ENGLAND.

Описание: Humber Bridge Country Park | Hessle, East Yorkshire, England.

A 4K sight and sound only walking experience.

Filmed on 28.03.2024

With sunny days at a premium at the beginning of 2024, this was the perfect day to get outside, stretch my legs and brush off all the cobwebs. Despite the constant drone of cars passing over the bridge, this has been a great dog walking spot for us over the years, even with the incessant rain which always floods the park.

The Humber Bridge Country Park is a 48 acre park next to the Humber Bridge in East Yorkshire, England. Located on the north side of this famous bridge close to the Hessle foreshore, the park was declared a Local Nature Reserve in 2002 in recognition of its wildlife value and its importance to the local community.

The park is set in a woodland with open meadows and wildlife ponds and the distinctive chalk cliffs which surround the park on three sides are reminiscent of snow covered mountains, hence the park's local name of Little Switzerland.

After the official opening of the Humber Bridge in June 1981 the Country Park was opened in 1986 to allow more city dwellers the opportunity to experience a bit of nature.

The landscape of the Country Park was shaped by over 600 years of chalk quarrying activity. Hessle Cliff, the first reference to a quarry on this site dates back to 1317. Since the 13th century the area was quarried for chalk, and it is the old quarry cliff terraces that now form the edges of the reserve which today is recognised as a Regionally Important Geological Site. The cracks and crevices of the cliffs also offer a multitude of undisturbed microhabitats for wildlife.

Country Park sits at the southern-most tip of the Yorkshire Wolds, an escarpment of chalk and foothills that arc from Hessle to Flamborough Head. The chalk was deposited during the late Cretaceous period, between 100 and 80 million years ago. The Latin word 'creta' actually means chalk.

On Hessle Foreshore, Hessle Whiting Mill also known as ‘Black Mill’ or ‘Cliff Mill’, was built around 1810 and was designed to crush chalk from the nearby quarry to produce whiting, a purified powdered form of chalk that was used in paints and putty. The mill, which replaced an earlier horse mill built in 1795, had its cap and five sails removed in 1925, and was thereafter powered by an engine. The mill survives as a monument to the reserve’s quarrying past. This Scheduled Ancient Monument was unique to the area in having sails that powered the grinding stones to transform chalk boulders into whiting which Humber boats then carried worldwide.

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0:00 start
0:09:44 nature trail
0:27:06 flooded pond
0:49:06 chalk quarry walls
0:57:26 creature bench
1:12:10 Hessle Whiting Mill
1:16:00 Hessle Foreshore and Humber Bridge