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102 relations: A roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A63 road, Alzheimer's disease, Ancient Rome, Anticyclone, Archbishop of York, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aveline de Forz, Countess of Aumale, Baldwin of Bethune, Beeching cuts, Beverley, Beverley railway station, Bishop of Durham, Boulder clay, Bridlington, Burton Constable, Coastal erosion, Coastal management, Commuter town, Counts and dukes of Aumale, Cretaceous, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Domesday Book, Driffield, Drogo de la Beuvrière, Drumlin, East Riding of Yorkshire, Edmund Crouchback, Edward I of England, Edward the Confessor, Flamborough Head, Flanders, Gabion, Geoffrey Chaucer, Groyne, Gulf Stream, Hawise, Countess of Aumale, Hedon, Henry III of England, Henry VIII of England, Holderness (borough), Holderness Drain, Hornsea, Hornsea Mere, Hornsea Town railway station, Hull Paragon Interchange, Hull–Scarborough line, Humber, Humberside, Hundred (county division), ..., Ice age, Isabel de Forz, suo jure 8th Countess of Devon, John Grundy Jr., Jure uxoris, Kingston upon Hull, Last glacial period, Lighthouse, Longshore drift, Marsh, Middle Ages, Natterjack toad, Neolithic, Netherlands, Norman conquest of England, North Holderness Light Railway, North Sea, Odo, Count of Champagne, Otter, Patrington, Pennines, Prime meridian, Ravenser Odd, Ravenspurn, River Hull, Rotterdam, Salt End, Sherlock Holmes, Skipsea, South Riding (novel), Spurn, Stephen of Aumale, The Adventure of the Priory School, The Summoner's Tale, Till, Tire, Topography, Walking to Hollywood, Wansford, East Riding of Yorkshire, Will Self, William de Forz (died 1195), William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle, William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle, William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex, William II of England, William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle, William the Conqueror, Winifred Holtby, Withernsea, Withernsea railway station, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Wolds, Zeebrugge. Expand index (52 more) »
A roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme
List of A roads in zone 1 in Great Britain beginning north of the Thames, east of the A1 (roads beginning with 1).
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A63 road
The A63 is a major road in Yorkshire, England between Leeds and Kingston upon Hull.
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Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time.
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Ancient Rome
In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.
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Anticyclone
An anticyclone (that is, opposite to a cyclone) is a weather phenomenon defined by the United States National Weather Service's glossary as "a large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere".
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Archbishop of York
The Archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.
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Aveline de Forz, Countess of Aumale
Aveline de Forz, Countess of Aumale and Lady of Holderness (20 January 1259 – 10 November 1274) was an English noblewoman.
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Baldwin of Bethune
Baldwin of Bethune or Baldwin de Béthune (French: Baudouin de Béthune Dutch: Boudewijn van Bethune) (c. 1158–1212), a French knight from the House of Bethune in Artois and a crusader, was close companion to successive English kings and on marriage to Hawise of Aumale became Count of Aumale with extensive estates in England.
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Beeching cuts
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.
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Beverley
Beverley is a historic market town, civil parish and the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Beverley railway station
Beverley railway station serves the town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Bishop of Durham
The Bishop of Durham is the Anglican bishop responsible for the Diocese of Durham in the Province of York.
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Boulder clay
Boulder clay, in geology, is a deposit of clay, often full of boulders, which is formed out of the ground moraine material of glaciers and ice-sheets wherever they are found.
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Bridlington
Bridlington is a coastal town and civil parish on the Holderness Coast of the North Sea, situated in the unitary authority and ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire approximately north of Hull.
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Burton Constable
Burton Constable is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Coastal erosion
Coastal erosion is the wearing away of material from a coastal profile including the removal of beach, sand dunes, or sediment by wave action, tidal currents, wave currents, drainage or high winds (see also beach evolution).
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Coastal management
Coastal management is defence against flooding and erosion, and techniques that stop erosion to claim lands.
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Commuter town
A commuter town is a town whose residents normally work elsewhere but in which they live, eat and sleep.
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Counts and dukes of Aumale
The County of Aumale, later elevated to a duchy, was a medieval fief in Normandy.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.
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Dissolution of the Monasteries
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.
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Driffield
Driffield, also known as Great Driffield, is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Drogo de la Beuvrière
Drogo de la Bouerer (also recorded as Drogo of la Beuvrière, Drogo de la Bouerer.) was a Flemish associate of William the Conqueror, who was rewarded after the conquest with a large grant of land in northern and eastern England, primarily in Holderness, where he built Skipsea Castle.
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Drumlin
A drumlin, from the Irish word droimnín ("littlest ridge"), first recorded in 1833, and in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine.
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East Riding of Yorkshire
The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county in the North of England.
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Edmund Crouchback
Edmund Crouchback (16 January 1245 – 5 June 1296), a member of the House of Plantagenet, was the second surviving son of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence.
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Edward I of England
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307.
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Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor (Ēadƿeard Andettere, Eduardus Confessor; 1003 – 5 January 1066), also known as Saint Edward the Confessor, was among the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
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Flamborough Head
Flamborough Head is a promontory, long on the Yorkshire coast of England, between the Filey and Bridlington bays of the North Sea.
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Flanders
Flanders (Vlaanderen, Flandre, Flandern) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium, although there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics and history.
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Gabion
A gabion (from Italian gabbione meaning "big cage"; from Italian gabbia and Latin cavea meaning "cage") is a cage, cylinder, or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, military applications and landscaping.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
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Groyne
A groyne is a rigid hydraulic structure built from an ocean shore (in coastal engineering) or from a bank (in rivers) that interrupts water flow and limits the movement of sediment.
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Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension the North Atlantic Drift, is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and stretches to the tip of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
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Hawise, Countess of Aumale
Hawise, Countess of Aumale (died 11 March 1214) was ruling Countess of Aumale from 1179 until 1194 with her husbands.
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Hedon
Hedon is a small town and civil parish in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Henry III of England
Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death.
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Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.
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Holderness (borough)
Holderness was a local government district and borough in northern England, named for the Holderness peninsula.
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Holderness Drain
Holderness Drain is the main feature of a Land Drainage scheme for the area of Holderness to the east of the River Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Hornsea
Hornsea is a small seaside resort, town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Hornsea Mere
Hornsea Mere is the largest freshwater lake in Yorkshire, England, and lies to the west of Hornsea in the East Riding.
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Hornsea Town railway station
Hornsea Town railway station was the terminus of the Hull and Hornsea Railway, and served the seaside town of Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Hull Paragon Interchange
Hull Paragon Interchange is an integrated rail and bus station in the city centre of Kingston upon Hull, England.
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Hull–Scarborough line
The Hull–Scarborough line, also known as the Yorkshire coast line, is a minor railway line in northern England used primarily for passenger traffic.
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Humber
The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England.
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Humberside
Humberside was a non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in Northern England from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1996.
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Hundred (county division)
A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.
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Ice age
An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
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Isabel de Forz, suo jure 8th Countess of Devon
Isabel de Forz or Isabel de Redvers (July 1237 – 10 November 1293) was the eldest daughter of Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon (1217–1245).
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John Grundy Jr.
John Grundy Jr. (1719–1783) was an English civil engineer, who worked on a number of drainage schemes, canal projects and dock works.
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Jure uxoris
Jure uxoris is a Latin phrase meaning "by right of (his) wife".
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Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Last glacial period
The last glacial period occurred from the end of the Eemian interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period years ago.
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Lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
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Longshore drift
Longshore drift is a geological process that consists of the transportation of sediments (clay, silt, sand and shingle) along a coast parallel to the shoreline, which is dependent on oblique incoming wind direction.
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Marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Natterjack toad
The natterjack toad (Bufo calamita) is a toad native to sandy and heathland areas of Europe.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Norman conquest of England
The Norman conquest of England (in Britain, often called the Norman Conquest or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, Flemish and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.
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North Holderness Light Railway
| The North Holderness Light Railway was a proposed light railway, which was to have been constructed between Beverley and North Frodingham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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North Sea
The North Sea (Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
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Odo, Count of Champagne
Odo (Modern Eudes; 1115) was Count of Troyes and of Meaux from 1047 to 1066, then Count of Aumale from 1069 to 1115.
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Otter
Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae.
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Patrington
Patrington is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness.
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Pennines
The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of mountains and hills in England separating North West England from Yorkshire and North East England.
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Prime meridian
A prime meridian is a meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°.
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Ravenser Odd
Ravenser Odd, also spelled Ravensrodd, was a port in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, during the medieval period, built on the sandbanks at the mouth of the Humber estuary.
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Ravenspurn
Ravenspurn was a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, which was lost due to coastal erosion, one of more than 30 along the Holderness Coast which have been lost to the North Sea since the 19th century.
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River Hull
The River Hull is a navigable river in the East Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England.
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Rotterdam
Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, in South Holland within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea.
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Salt End
Salt End or Saltend is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness.
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Skipsea
Skipsea is a village and civil parish on the North Sea coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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South Riding (novel)
South Riding is a novel by Winifred Holtby, published posthumously in 1936.
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Spurn
Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuary.
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Stephen of Aumale
Stephen of Aumale (–1127) was Count of Aumale from before 1089 to 1127, and Lord of Holderness.
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The Adventure of the Priory School
"The Adventure of the Priory School", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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The Summoner's Tale
"The Summoner's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Till
Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.
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Tire
A tire (American English) or tyre (British English; see spelling differences) is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide traction on the surface traveled over.
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Topography
Topography is the study of the shape and features of the surface of the Earth and other observable astronomical objects including planets, moons, and asteroids.
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Walking to Hollywood
Walking to Hollywood is a 2010 novel by writer and media personality Will Self.
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Wansford, East Riding of Yorkshire
Wansford is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England; it forms part of the civil parish of Skerne and Wansford.
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Will Self
William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English novelist, journalist, political commentator and television personality.
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William de Forz (died 1195)
William de Forz (died 1195) (Latinised to Willelmus de Fortibus) was a minor Anglo-Norman noble, by origin from Fors in Poitou.
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William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle
William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (died 26 March 1242) was an English nobleman.
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William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle
William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle (died 1260) (Latinised as de Fortibus, sometimes spelt Deforce) played a conspicuous part in the reign of Henry III of England, notably in the Mad Parliament of 1258.
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William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex
William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex (1st Creation) (died 14 November 1189) was a loyal councillor of Henry II and Richard I of England.
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William II of England
William II (Old Norman: Williame; – 2 August 1100), the third son of William the Conqueror, was King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers over Normandy, and influence in Scotland.
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William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle
William le Gros, William le Gras, William d'Aumale, William Crassus (died 20 August 1179) was the Count of Aumale (Earl of Albemarle), Earl of York, and Lord of Holderness.
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William the Conqueror
William I (c. 1028Bates William the Conqueror p. 33 – 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.
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Winifred Holtby
Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 September 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel South Riding, which was posthumously published in 1936.
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Withernsea
Withernsea is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and forms the focal point for a wider community of small villages in Holderness.
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Withernsea railway station
Withernsea railway station is a disused railway station that was the terminus of the North Eastern Railway's Hull and Holderness Railway in Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Yorkshire
Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.
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Yorkshire Wolds
The Yorkshire Wolds are low hills in the counties of East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire in north-eastern England.
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Zeebrugge
Zeebrugge (from: Brugge aan zee meaning "Bruges on Sea", Zeebruges) is a village on the coast of Belgium and a subdivision of Bruges, for which it is the modern port.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holderness
