In today's walk, I took bus 75 to Hedon, and walked back towards Hull along the Withernsea railway train, which is now used as a cycle and pedestrian lane. At Hedon, I first visit the grounds of the impressive church, cathedral like. A Chaffinch feeds under a beech, and there are Jackdaws and House Sparrows around. I search for public rights of way to make my way to the railway trail, and I'm very pleased to find that they go along water. The map tells me that the town is surrounded by water: Reedmere Sewer, on the north and Burswick drain and Hedon Haven on the south side. I spot two Little Egret on the Reedmere, which, unlike its name, it's a transparent pleasant dyke. One of them flies to a tree overhanging the water (top shot). I take the trail near Twyers Hill and then it's a linear footpath, unpaved until the Hull boundary.
I take a short detour from the trail to visit what remains of the ancient village of Marfleet, now part of the city of Hull. Amongst large warehouses and industrial units and yards with mobile homes, stands a small church in a green churchyard with mature trees, which was the parish church of the village of Marfleet. At the time, Marfleet was a small agricultural settlement, with a few scattered farmhouses surrounding the church and right next to the grazing marsh of the Humber and large flat fields away from Hull. A common next to the high water 'Paddock common' and a brackwater is shown in the 1852 OS map. Today, a school and a few cottages and farmhouses, some refurbished dwellings, are all that remains from the old village. Marfleet is now separated from the Humber by the A1033 and King George Dock on reclaimed land.
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