41-615: The Humber Ferry was a ferry service on the Humber between Kingston upon Hull , East Riding of Yorkshire and New Holland , Lincolnshire , England, which operated until the completion of the Humber Bridge in 1981. The Norse-derived names of North Ferriby and South Ferriby suggest a ferry between them across the Humber Gap . The first record of a ferry across the Humber dates from 1315 when
82-420: A 55 acres (22 ha) vehicle import centre served by the port c. 2005 , in association with ABLE UK and the port operators. By late 2005 clients included Stena Line , Colbefret , UECC , Norfolkline , Ferryways and Eukor . Planning for a third phase of the terminal, initially estimated as costing £25 million for two further berths was underway in 2005. A harbour revision order allowing
123-684: A commercial pier to be constructed by the Yorkshire Transport Company. The company's jetty was to be west of the Admiralty's jetty, 981 by 27 feet (299.0 by 8.2 m), with a westward "L" arm, 600 by 46 feet (183 by 14 m) long by wide, intended for shipment of coal from collieries accessible from the River Ouse . (unbuilt) Adjacent to the Admiralty oil depot an seaplane station was opened in August 1914. Originally called RNAS Immingham it
164-449: A concrete deck; a cellular concrete pontoon 40 by 80 metres (130 by 260 ft) secured by two restraining dolphins consisting of outer and inner tubular steel piles of 1,700 and 1,067 millimetres (66.9 and 42.0 in) ring filled with concrete; and a 227 metres (745 ft) pier linking to land also on 1,067 millimetres (42.0 in) piles, connected to the pontoon by an 80 by 10 metres (262 by 33 ft) bridge. Shoreside construction
205-409: A jetty at Killingholme North Haven. The development was to be a deepwater roll-on/roll-off terminal aimed at container traffic from European ports such as Rotterdam . A tender in 1998 from Edmund Nuttall and consultants Posford Duvivier led to a contract in 1999. The works included a 143 metres (469 ft) two berth jetty supported on fifty 1,067 millimetres (42.0 in) tubular steel piles with
246-493: A paddle steamer called Magna Charta . In his A Picturesque Tour to Thornton Monastery , John Greenwood writing in 1835 records that the steam packet leaves Hull at seven, a quarter past eleven and four o’clock, and leaves New Holland at nine, two and seven o’clock in the evening. In 1845 the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway bought out the ferry services for £10,000 (£892,207 in 2015). The Barton upon Humber service
287-426: A report by Coopers and Lybrand in the same period identified demand for both Roll-on/Roll-off and containerised handling facilities in the area. Later in the 1990s Ro-Ro facilities were established by Simon Group (see § Humber Sea Terminal ). The haven is currently (2015) used by dredging contractors Humber Work Boats Ltd. . In the late 1994 Simon Group gained a statutory instrument enabling it to construct
328-524: A saline lagoon habitat, with some scarce birds and invertebrates. Construction and extension of a pier at the haven was consented by the North Killingholme (Admiralty Pier) Act 1912 ( 2 & 3 Geo. 5 . c. clx); The Admiralty's jetty was to be 800 by 20 feet (243.8 by 6.1 m) long by wide with a T-shaped head. The jetty was receiving oil by the mid 1910s. The North Killingholme Admiralty Pier Act 1931 ( 21 & 22 Geo. 5 . c. lxiv) allowed
369-579: A variant forms the name of the adjoining River Hull . The estuary appears in some Latin sources as Abus (A name used by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene ). This is possibly a Latinisation of the Celtic form Aber ( Welsh for river mouth or estuary) but is erroneously given as a name for both the Humber and The Ouse as one continuous watercourse. Both Abus and Aber may record an older Indo-European word for water or river, (as in
410-578: 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. Also known as the River Humber , it is tidal its entire length. Below Trent Falls,
451-622: Is a water outlet on the south bank of the Humber Estuary in the civil parish of North Killingholme , to the north-west of the Port of Immingham . The area was used at the beginning of the 20th century for clay extraction with a jetty transhipping clay to Hull; in 1912 construction of a jetty for the Admiralty was consented, for fuel oil shipment. During the First World War a large seaplane facility
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#1732850981663492-618: Is also used by over-wintering birds, is a good breeding ground for bitterns , marsh harriers , little terns and avocets , and forms part of the Severn-Trent flyway , a route used by migratory birds to cross Great Britain . In 2019 the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and the University of Hull re-introduced the river oyster into the Humber after a sixty-year absence. North Killingholme Haven North Killingholme Haven
533-472: Is further upstream, a Napoleonic-era emplacement replaced in the early 20th century by Stallingborough Battery opposite Sunk Island . The Humber Bridge was the longest single-span suspension bridge in the world from its construction in 1981 until 1998. It is now the twelfth longest . Before the bridge was built, a series of paddle steamers operated from the Corporation Pier railway station at
574-500: Is noted in the Domesday Book and in a charter of 1281. The ferry was recorded as still operating in 1856, into the railway era. The Humber was then one mile (1.6 km) across. Graham Boanas, a Hull man, is believed to be the first man to succeed in wading across the Humber since ancient Roman times. The feat in August 2005 was attempted to raise cash and awareness for the medical research charity, DebRA . He started his trek on
615-705: Is now submerged beneath the North Sea . The Humber features regularly in medieval British literature. In the Welsh Triads , the Humber is (together with the Thames and the River Severn ) one of the three principal rivers of Britain, and is continually mentioned throughout the Brut y Brenhinedd as a boundary between the southern kingdom ( Lloegyr ) and various northern kingdoms. In Geoffrey of Monmouth 's 12th-century historically unreliable chronicle ( Historia Regum Britanniae ),
656-524: The Thames . There are numerous theories for how the hydronym of Humber is derived from Celtic or Pre-Celtic languages. For example, it may be a Brittonic formation containing -[a]mb-ṛ , a variant of the element *amb meaning "moisture", with the prefix *hu- meaning "good, well" (c.f. Welsh hy- , in Hywel , etc). The first element may also be *hū- , with connotations of "seethe, boil, soak", of which
697-667: The Victoria Pier in Hull to the railway pier in New Holland . Steam ferries started in 1841, and in 1848 were purchased by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway . They, and their successors, ran the ferry until the bridge opened in 1981. Railway passenger and car traffic continued to use the pier until the end of ferry operations. The line of the bridge is similar to an ancient ferry route from Hessle to Barton upon Humber , which
738-573: The 'Five Rivers' of the Punjab ). An alternative derivation may be from the Latin verb abdo meaning "to hide, to conceal". The successive name Humbre / Humbri / Umbri may continue the meaning via the Latin verb umbro also meaning "to cover with shadows". Although it is now an estuary its entire length, the Humber had a much longer freshwater course during the Ice Age , extending across Doggerland , which
779-519: The British airship R38 crashed into the estuary near Hull, killing 44 of the 49 crew on board. From 1974 to 1996, the areas now known as the East Riding of Yorkshire , North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire constituted the county of Humberside . The Humber, from 1996, forms a boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire (to the north) and North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, to
820-568: The Humber is named for " Humber the Hun ", an invader who drowned there during battle in the earliest days of the chronicle. The Humber remained an important boundary throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, separating Northumbria from the southern kingdoms. The name Northumbria derives from the Anglo-Saxon Norðhymbre (plural) = "the people north of the Humber". The Humber is recorded with
861-643: The Humber passes the junction with the Market Weighton Canal on the north shore, the confluence of the River Ancholme on the south shore; between North Ferriby and South Ferriby and under the Humber Bridge ; between Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Kingston upon Hull on the north bank (where the River Hull joins), then meets the North Sea between Cleethorpes on the Lincolnshire side and
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#1732850981663902-562: The Warden and Burgesses of Hull were granted a charter by King Edward II to run a ferry between Hull and Barton in Lincolnshire. Pedestrians were halfpenny each, horses one penny and a cart with two horses twopence. The Corporation of Hull purchased the leases for £3,000 in 1796 (£266,020 in 2015) and both were relet in 1815. In 1826 a new service started by the New Holland Proprietors between Hull and New Holland. In 1832 they launched
943-543: The World Open Water Swimming Association. He raised over £900 for Humber Rescue, who provided safety support during the swim. The Humber is home both to resident fish and those returning from the sea to their spawning grounds in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire . Salmon , sole , cod , eel , flounder , plaice , sprat , lamprey and sand goby have all been caught within the estuary. It
984-691: The abbreviation Fl. Abi (The Abus river, Ancient Greek : Ἄβος ) in Ptolemy 's Geographia , discharging into the German Ocean (the North Sea ) south of Ocelum Promontorium (Spurn Head). Ptolemy also gives the Iron Age tribes of the area as the Coritani south of the Humber and the Parisi to the north. In the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe , Crusoe leaves England on a ship departing from The Humber. On 23 August 1921,
1025-411: The design gave a 17 metres (56 ft) water depth at high tide (8 metres (26 ft) tidal range), and allowed berthing of ships up to 35,000 gross tons and 200 metres (660 ft) long. The fourth berth was re-designed to be either a Lo-Lo or Ro-Ro berth, and was constructed as a Ro-Ro facility with Belgian shipper Cobelfret signing a twenty-year agreement. Nuttall was selected as contractor for
1066-600: The extension of the existing pier's head, replacing two sunken ships which had been used as dolphins at the head of the pier. The station soon became an important refuelling point for the Royal Navy . The oil storage site was served by the Killingholme Admiralty Platform station from 1930 to 1963. Another act, the North Killingholme Pier Act 1912 ( 2 & 3 Geo. 5 . c. clxvi) sanctioned
1107-458: The first person to attempt and complete a two-way swim across the estuary, beginning and finishing at Hessle foreshore, with Barton on the south bank as the mid-way point, fulfilling the land-to-land criteria, covering a total of 4,085 m (4,467 yd). Royal holds the record for the fastest one-way swim across the Humber (35 minutes 11 seconds) and the fastest two-way swim (1 hour, 13 minutes, 46 seconds), certified by Guinness World Records and
1148-450: The first recorded woman to swim the Humber. Boyall, then aged 19 and living in Hull, was the Yorkshire swimming champion. She crossed the Humber from Hull to New Holland Pier swimming the distance in 50 minutes, 6 minutes slower than the existing men's record. Since 2011, Warners Health have organised the 'Warners Health Humber Charity Business Swim'. Twelve swimmers from companies across the Yorkshire region train and swim in an ellipse from
1189-400: The long and thin headland of Spurn Head to the north. Ports on the Humber include the Port of Hull , the Port of Grimsby and the Port of Immingham ; there are lesser ports at New Holland and North Killingholme Haven . The estuary is navigable for the largest of deep-sea vessels. Inland connections for smaller craft are extensive but handle only a quarter of the goods traffic handled in
1230-507: The main seaplane bases in the UK. The facility was disbanded after the end of the war- some of the hangars were used to construct a bus depot in Grimsby (Victoria Street). The riverside at and around North Killingholme Haven has been identified as a viable expansion point for further port facilities on the south bank of the Humber – an £80 million port was proposed in the 1980s but not proceeded with –
1271-520: The north bank at Brough ; four hours later, he emerged on the south bank at Whitton . He is 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) tall and took advantage of a very low tide. He replicated this achievement on the television programme Top Gear (Series 10 Episode 6) when he beat James May who drove an Alfa Romeo 159 around the inland part of the estuary in a race without using the Humber Bridge. On Saturday 26 August 1911, Alice Maud Boyall became
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1312-538: The opening of the Humber Bridge . This list is not complete. There was an additional ship introduced in the 1970s which was diesel powered, DEPV Farringford . She was previously used as a ferry between the mainland and the Isle of Wight. The vessels operated by the Humber Ferry service – all paddle steamers to cope with the shallow shifting sands of the Humber – were: Humber The Humber / ˈ h ʌ m b ər /
1353-453: The original land pier by a new spur. The "Phase Two" of the development was consented (2003); A £9.6 million contract for the third berth was awarded in 2003 to Edmund Nuttall , with the work including a new 240 metres (790 ft) jetty, as well as approach bridge and adjustable ramp. The third berth was completed February 2004, consisting of a 240 by 13 metres (787 by 43 ft) concrete decked finger pier supported on tubular piles;
1394-554: The outfall of the waterway onto the Humber was sluiced. There was a single dwelling at the outfall – the New Inn . Between 1909 and 1913 Earles Cement works in Wilmington was supplied with clay from pits at North Killingholme, shipped by barge. Clay dug by hand, and transported by horse, later steam winch and then narrow gauge locomotive to a jetty at the mouth of Killingholme Haven. The disused clay pits are since flooded and now form
1435-437: The south bank to the north bank of the estuary under the Humber Bridge over a total distance of approximately 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km). Since then, an organised group crossing at the Humber Bridge has become an annual event, with a small number of pre-selected swimmers crossing in a 'pod' which remains close together, in aid of Humber Rescue. In 2019, Hull-based competitive open water swimmer Richard Royal became
1476-584: The south. The Humber Forts were built in the mouth of the estuary for the First World War . Planned in 1914, their construction started in 1915 and they were not completed until 1919. A coastal battery at Easington, Fort Goodwin or Kilnsea Battery , faced the Bull Sands Fort. They were also garrisoned during the Second World War, and were finally abandoned for military use in 1956. Fort Paull
1517-464: The £8 million fourth berth contract, including the approach bridge spur; 80 by 9.8 metres (262 by 32 ft) linkspan; and additional 40 by 35 metres (131 by 115 ft) cellular steel pontoon. The approach spur was begun in May 2003. For phase 2 an additional £14.5 million was expended on onshore storage groundworks, covering 60 acres (24 ha). Kia Motors relocated its import activities to
1558-439: Was contracted to Clark Construction. The two berth "Phase I" opened June 2000, with Stena Line sailing to Hook of Holland . The facility's capacity of 14 sailings per week was soon reached, and in 2002 the developer, Simon Group began planning for a "Phase Two", with two further berths. The initial plan was for a third Ro-Ro berth from the original pontoon, plus a fourth berth for Load-on/Load-off (Lo-Lo) use, connection to
1599-451: Was operated, known as RNAS Killingholme . In the 1990s a Simon Group established a Roll on-Roll off river terminal at the Haven, known as Humber Sea Terminal ; the terminal was expanded to six berths through the 1990s and 2000s. At the end of the 19th century North Killingholme Haven was used as a drainage point for networks of drainage canals in the fields in the North Killingholme area –
1640-432: Was renamed as RNAS Killingholme . By late 1914 Facilities at the site included a 177 by 56 feet (54 by 17 m) hangar and four 68 by 77 feet (21 by 23 m) seaplane hangars, as well as a 700 by 60 feet (213 by 18 m) slipway for the seaplanes. Facilities were increased during the First World War , including larger hangars and further slipways- with staff levels reaching 900 operating over 100 aeroplanes, one of
1681-544: Was withdrawn in 1851. The railway company built a new pier at New Holland some 1,500 feet (460 m) in length with the railway station, allowing direct connection with the ferry service. New Holland Pier railway station opened on 1 March 1848. The management transferred to the British Transport Commission in 1948 and on 1 January 1959 management of transferred to Associated Humber Lines . The Hull to New Holland ferry service finished on 24 June 1981 with