You
have probably heard of Beverley Minster, Flamborough Head, the Yorkshire Wolds,
the Humber Bridge. But what about the Land of Green Ginger, Britain's largest
standing stone, Europe's largest collection of waterlilies or even the oddest
place in England ?
Happily
for those who are in on East Yorkshire's secrets, this is a corner of England
still relatively undiscovered. The landscape is unlike anywhere else in Britain
and truly a walker's paradise. Rich and fertile farmland swells gently from
the flat meadows of Holderness, gently rising and rolling over the chalky uplands
of the Yorkshire Wolds, to end at the great chalk cliffs of Flamborough Head,
plunging down into the North Sea
And
within all this you will find picture-postcard villages, stunning churches,
stately homes with magnificent gardens, a city resplendent in maritime heritage,
a medieval town as musical today as it was 500 years ago, plenty of pubs as
yet untouched by the dreaded theme teams, prizewinning Yorkshire puddings and
England's last word in fish restaurants.
Sometimes
known as little Denmark, many towns and villages reflect this area's Danish
and Flemish connections in appearance and in name, such as Lund, Skidby and
Wetwang.
The
spectacular chalk cliffs of Flamborough Head
There
is an eeriness to the ever-changing, eroding Heritage Coast. A land and seascape
of high cliffs, golden sands, smuggler's caves harbors, lighthouses, unique
plant life and thousands upon thousands of seabirds protected by miles of RSPB
reserves
To
the North of Admiralty guest house are the spectacular chalk cliffs of Flamborough
Head, and to the south lies the earthen cliff faces of the Holderness coast,
the most eroded coastline in the World, where over 30 villages have been lost
to the sea in the last 200 years ! 20 miles further south yields the unique
geological phenomenon of Spurn Point.
