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Kilnsea is a village in the civil parish of Easington, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of the village of Easington, on the north bank of the Humber Estuary. In 1931 the parish had a population of 185. [1]
The Church of St Helen, Kilnsea, Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, is a redundant parish church dating from 1864–5. It was designed by the architect William Burges, and partly paid for by his father Alfred Burges, and is a Grade II listed building.
Easington is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in the area known as Holderness.A coastal settlement, it is situated between the Humber estuary and the North Sea at the south-eastern corner of the county, and at the end of the B1445 road from Patrington.
The Spurn Point military railway [a] was a railway line in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It extended for 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (6 km), connecting Kilnsea with Spurn Point in the Humber Estuary. [3] The line was built to supply military installations along this stretch of coast.
Calcutt, Calder Grove, Caldwell, Calverley, Camblesforth, Camerton, Campsall, Canklow, Carcroft, Carlecotes, Carleton, Carlton in Cleveland, Carlton (Richmondshire ...
[28] [29] Alongside the Norfolk Coast, the East Riding of Yorkshire has the greatest number of homes at risk due to coastal erosion in England. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] However, without rising sea levels and the effects of climate change, the coastline of Yorkshire, especially the Holderness Coast, would be affected by the natural processes of the tides ...
Other examples exist in other parts of Britain (including Sunderland, Redcar, Boulby, Kilnsea and Selsey Bill), and Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq in Malta. The Maltese sound mirror is known locally as "the ear" . The Dungeness mirrors, known colloquially as the "listening ears", consist of three large concrete reflectors built in the 1920s–1930s. Their ...
The coastline of Yorkshire has played (and still continues to play) host to some diverse industries. From north to south; Redcar has a major port, the deepest on the east coast of England [31] (built to service the adjacent steel industry) and formerly had a steel works [32] near to the beach for which a railway line was diverted in 1978. [33]