Some interesting early maps of Lincolnshire -- new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/11/some-early-maps-of-lincolnshire.html …pic.twitter.com/jzVSoY3gla
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An even more detailed depiction of Hull + Barton, drawn 1537, with wonderful detail! http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/h/001cotaugi00001u00083000.html …pic.twitter.com/OQ1rYYMJbP
Plan from 1570 of the proposed new haven at Wainfleet, Lincs, showing Thieves' Creek :) http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/a/001cotaugi00001u00082000.html …pic.twitter.com/Lb3IPLsUwu
Hull & Barton-upon-Humber, drawn 1537, w/ fab detail incl Anglo-Saxon church tower at Barton http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/h/001cotaugi00001u00083000.html …pic.twitter.com/Sg9gK6gWvk
The gallows & windmills just outside the medieval walls of Hull on the Cottingham road, 1537 http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/h/001cotaugi00001u00083000.html …pic.twitter.com/vWQgJgRxNu
Detailed view of Spurn Head in the 1540s, showing islands to the south and east, along with a mid-16thC shippic.twitter.com/DL3WbMfxZ4
Spurn Head & Grimsby in 1595, from a wonderful map that belonged to Wm Cecil, Lord Burghley http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/illmanus/roymanucoll/c/001roy000018d03u00063000.html …pic.twitter.com/favu0WvOFa
The mouth of the Humber in 1707, showing the sands and islands present at that time: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-6898-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99#/?rotate=0 …pic.twitter.com/7XkoeY9Rk4
it to the land? And I'm thinking that there was a sand bar surrounding it, per the map.
reclamation and shifting currents, I believe :)
Ah! 300 years of nature and man working together!
@caitlinrgreen That is glorious. My nautical heart is beating quickly.
@MariusHollenga Isn't it just! :)
@caitlinrgreen Wish I had a very large empty wall that I could fill with maps just like that. :)
@caitlinrgreen I've just been writing about #SpurnPoint - so different now!
@caitlinrgreen but where is Spurn?
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