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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 872 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUMBER , an See also:

estuary on the See also:east See also:coast of See also:England formed by the See also:rivers See also:Trent and See also:Ouse, the See also:northern See also:shore belonging to See also:Yorkshire and the See also:southern to See also:Lincolnshire. The junction of these two important rivers is near the See also:village of Faxfleet, from which point the course of the Humber runs E. for z8 m., and then S.E. for 19 m. to the See also:North See also:Sea. The See also:total See also:area draining to the Humber is 9293 sq. m. The width of the estuary is , m. at the See also:head, gradually widening to 31 M. at 8 m. above the mouth, but here, with a See also:great shallow See also:bay on the Yorkshire See also:side, it increases to 8 m. in width. The seaward See also:horn of this bay, however, is formed by a narrow protruding See also:bank of See also:sand and stones, thrown up by a southward current along the See also:York-See also:shire coast, and known as Spurn Head. This reduces the width of the Humber mouth to 52 M. Except where the Humber cuts through a See also:low See also:chalk See also:ridge, between north and See also:south Ferriby, dividing it into the Wolds of Yorkshire and of Lincolnshire, the shores and adjacent lands are nearly See also:flat. The See also:water is muddy; and the course for See also:shipping considerably exceeds in length the distances given above, by See also:reason of the numerous shoals it is necessary to avoid. The course is carefully buoyed and lighted, for the Humber is an important See also:highway of See also:commerce, having on the Yorkshire bank the great See also:port of See also:Hull, and on the See also:Lincoln-shire bank that of See also:Grimsby, while See also:Goole lies on the Ouse a little above the junction with the Trent. Canals connect with the great manufacturing See also:district of South Yorkshire, and the Trent opens up wide communications with the Midlands. The phenomenon of the tidal See also:bore is sometimes seen on the Humber. The See also:action of the See also:river upon the flat Yorkshire shore towards the mouth alters the shore-See also:line constantly.

Many See also:

ancient villages have disappeared entirely, notably Ravenspur or Ravenser, once a port, represented in See also:parliament under See also:Edward I., and the See also:scene of the landing of See also:Bolingbroke, afterwards See also:Henry IV., in 1399. Soon after this the See also:town, which See also:lay immediately inside Spurn Point, must have been destroyed.

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