| | | East Riding covers the east of Yorkshire, a combination of market towns, traditional seaside resorts and the busy port of Hull, right at the mouth of River Humber. |
| Kingston-upon-Hull (to give it the correct title) surprisingly, has its' own museum quarter, which includes Wilberforce House - displays about the man who abolished slavery and came from the town. |
| Elsewhere, there's market towns like Beverley and Driffield, Howden and Market Weighton and on the coastline, seaside towns like Bridlington and Hornsea. |
Also worth seeing, especially when lit up at night, is the Humber Bridge, which carries traffic across the River Humber. It is designed to move in the wind and benmds more than three metres in the middle during winds of 80mph.
With a main span of 1410 meters the Humber Bridge was the longest single-span suspension bridge in the world till from 1981 till 1998. |
| The Humber itself is an estuary of about 37 miles formed by the meeting of the rivers Trent and Ouse. It widens from 1 mile at the head to 13 miles at the mouth. The large width, and shallow depth leads to tricky navigation, but that has not stopped the Humber being an important shipping route thoughout the ages. |
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