A sunny day with a southerly wind, I take bus 24 to Hornsea. My initial plan was to walk on the beach to Mapleton, then to Great Hatfield and Little Hatfield, and return to Hornsea via the railway trail, but when I got to Little Hatfield, I realise that is is quicker to walk to Sigglesthorne to catch my bus back, so I do so. It is almost low tide when I start my walk. A couple of anderlings feed on the edge of the waves, at some point dwarfed by a Herring Gull. The clay on the cliffs is wet and soft with the recent rain. Skylarks sing from the fields and various gulls loaf on the beach, with another group of Sanderlings. Colt's Foot is flowering in the slowly eroding cliffs near Mapleton.
I make a stop for a hot drink at The Old Post Office tea rooms at Mapleton. A cyclist complains about the wind and the awful state of the road from Great Hatfield. I ask him about the road traffic and I'm glad he says there is little, as that's the direction I'm taking next. After admiring Mapleton church I take the road to Hatfield. It is actually a pleasant road to walk, quite straight, with good visibility and broad verges to step aside from oncoming traffic. The views are expansive with large fields framed by hedges and ditches. Great Hatfield, despite its name, is a small village. There is a pond and an ancient cross. I spot my first bumblebees of the year. I walk along Cross street and Main street. On the outskirts of the village sits the disused Sigglesthorne station, on the Hornsea railway trail.
Mapleton church.
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