Views of the Humber 12.

Today’s picture from the recent walk (s.p.b.s) was taken from the side of Elloughton Wold, looking south-east over Elloughton village, across a section of the middle-reaches of the Estuary to the south bank beyond. On the south bank stands the now ‘mothballed’ Cemex cement works on Sluice Road, South Ferriby, but being sited just west of the Sluice at the mouth of the River Ancholme it is in the parish of Winteringham. It came as a surprise to learn that the cement works was being ‘mothballed’ as as recently as 2014 millions were spent on restoring the works after the flooding of December 5th, 2013. The principal raw materials for the works came from the huge quarry cut into the side of the Lincolnshire Wolds above the village of South Ferriby, a conveyor belt carried the crushed chalk from the quarry to the works. Disused chalk quarries evolve into vital nature reserves and it is to be hoped that North Lincolnshire Council will not be tempted to support some recreational activity in the quarry which would harm this devopment. If and when the cement works is demolished the last industrial chimney of the Humber banks will go, following those of Capper Pass on the north bank and the Brit-Ag site at Barton on Humber.
Angling to the right of the picture beyond the cement works is the Vale of Ancholme, fringed beyond by the scarp slope of the northern Lincolnshire Wolds.