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The Humber / ˈ h ʌ m b ər / is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England. It is formed at Trent Falls , Faxfleet , by the confluence of the tidal rivers Ouse and Trent . From there to the North Sea , it forms part of the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire on the north bank and North Lincolnshire on the south bank.
The Humberhead Levels is a national character area covering a large expanse of flat, low-lying land towards the western end of the Humber estuary in northern England. The levels occupy the former Glacial Lake Humber, an area bounded to the east by the Yorkshire Wolds and the northern Lincolnshire Edge, a limestone escarpment , and to the west ...
View of the Humber Estuary, the largest SSSI in the area, across the western end of Sunk Island Sands. This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
The two forts were planned in 1914, at the start of the First World War, to protect the sea entrance to the Humber Estuary. They stand 59 feet (18 m) above the water and have a diameter of 82 feet (25 m). There was accommodation for 200 soldiers.
Map showing the Lincolnshire Wolds and the southern part of the Yorkshire Wolds, separated by the Humber west of Kingston upon Hull. The Humber Gap is a term for the geographic gap between the roughly north–south running line of hills formed by the Yorkshire Wolds and the Lincolnshire Wolds, formed by the west–east running Humber Estuary. [1]
The river passes through Stoke-on-Trent, Stone, Staffordshire, Rugeley, Burton-upon-Trent and Nottingham before joining the River Ouse, Yorkshire at Trent Falls to form the Humber Estuary, which empties into the North Sea between Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire and Immingham in Lincolnshire. The wide Humber estuary has often been described as ...
They produced a map of England that depicts the natural and cultural dimensions of the landscape. [3] Natural Areas are assessed by Natural England, the UK Government's advisor on the natural environment, to be "a sensible scale at which to view the wildlife resource, from both a national and local perspective". Natural Areas were also used by ...
North is orientated to the left top corner of the image. This means that the mouth of the Tees is on the left and the mouth of the Humber on the right. As can be seen from the geological map, the Yorkshire Coast is composed of shales, alluviums (sand, clay and gravel), oolites, limestones, mudstone, sandstones, ironstones and chalk.