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North Ferriby: Don’t stop the boats

Posted on 19 March 202522 March 2025 by Rob Ainsley

A quick visit today to the village I grew up in, North Ferriby just outside Hull, to see what has put it on the map: the Ferriby Boats. We have a few claims to fame for a place of under 4,000 folk: Mariinsky dancer Xander Parish, weather presenter Alex Deakin, and anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce….

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Ousefleet: Britain’s emptiest experience

Posted on 18 March 202524 March 2025 by Rob Ainsley

Fans of Ordnance Survey maps – particularly the 204 of the classic Landranger series that cover Britain – spend hours looking for oddities. Two neighbouring, separate villages, both called ‘Great Totham’ in Essex, for instance (map 178). Or a strange dry ‘aerial river’ snaking from Littleport to Shippea Hill in Cambridgeshire (map 143). Or the…

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Whitgift: Thirteen to the dozen

Posted on 18 March 202521 March 2025 by Rob Ainsley

If Yorkshire was a clock face, the area roughly at half past four – the string of villages on the south bank of the Ouse – is one of its most obscure corners. And it’s a strange clock that I’m here to see. When I grew up, in North Ferriby just downstream outside Hull, I’d…

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Yorks’ longest street and shortest: Beverley Rd to Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate

Posted on 14 February 20257 March 2025 by Rob Ainsley

Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate, in York, is always cited as Yorkshire’s shortest street. What about the longest? Google’s AI suggested Beverley Road, in Hull. So obviously I didn’t believe it. AI-generated information about cycling tends to be a load of cobblers. More cobblers than a shoemakers’ convention in Northampton eating desserts with fruit filling and biscuit topping. But…

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Everthorpe: Benchmark for Britain’s maps

Posted on 30 January 20251 February 2025 by Rob Ainsley

The East Riding hamlet of Everthorpe has a claim to fame. And no, it’s not HMP Humber, the Category C prison nearby. Everthorpe’s USP is an OS FBM: an Ordnance Survey Fundamental Bench Mark. Most of us are familiar with OS trig points – summit concrete pillars once used for surveying heights and positions pre-GPS….

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Sheffield: Dutch courage

Posted on 17 January 202518 January 2025 by Rob Ainsley

I rode both of Britain’s so-called ‘Dutch Roundabouts’ last week: the one in Sheffield that opened in Dec 2024, and the one in Cambridge that opened in summer 2020. Many cycle-infra buffs reckon Britain’s ‘Dutch’ roundabouts are about as Dutch as a ski resort, and don’t closely resemble the various layouts that bike-friendly gyratories have…

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Cottingham: Going large

Posted on 23 December 20245 January 2025 by Rob Ainsley

After riding through Sykehouse, England’s longest village, I headed to England’s largest village: Cottingham. Well, so it claims. With a population of 18,000 it’s certainly bigger than many towns (such as Middleham on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, home to under 500 people but also a lot of horses). It’s even bigger than Ripon…

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Sykehouse: Long story

Posted on 21 December 202424 December 2024 by Rob Ainsley

Q: What links – River Severn; Elizabeth II; M6; Sykehouse? A: England’s longest – river; reign; motorway; village. Yes, Sykehouse, excitingly positioned between Doncaster and Goole in south Yorkshire, is the longest village in the country. And to prove it I rode through the place on this, the shortest day of the year. There are…

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Oulston: May the Foss be with you

Posted on 30 November 20241 December 2024 by Rob Ainsley

The source of York’s other river, the Foss, is a hillside hole in a wood about fifteen miles north. A few years ago (as part of my Yorkshire River rides) I cycled to the High-Dales source of the Ouse, the Foss’s much bigger counterpart which swallows it up in the city centre. But today I…

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Yorks’ least used station to most: Rawcliffe to Leeds

Posted on 27 November 202429 November 2024 by Rob Ainsley

The annual figures for passenger use of Britain’s 2,597 railway stations have just been announced. It seems a media-story thing now, in the same way that the arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau isn’t. Anyway, I couldn’t resist riding from Yorkshire’s least-used station (Rawcliffe, 498, 25th least-used nationally) to its most-used, thirty-odd miles away (Leeds, 24.9m, 16th…

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