The best walks and hikes around Skeffling

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You can't go much further south on the Holderness peninsula than Easington (if you do, you'll get wet). The church dates to the Norman period, with a 12th-century north aisle and 13th-century south aisle. There are a 14th-century clerestory and west tower, and a 15th-century chancel. Set into the wall of the north aisle is a lovely Early English doorway that may have been brought here from Birstall (Burstall) Priory, perhaps when that monastery sank into the Humber River due to erosion. Some of the north nave windows are made using Saxon grave slabs and evidence of the Saxon carvings can easily be seen.

Fantastic place to visit, walk the entire length for the full experience. Checking tide times is essential, I entered an hour after high tide, meaning there was some nice solid wet sand to walk on rather than wading with difficulty through heaped dry sand. However, this is only an issue for the first few hundred metres. After that there is a concrete road/track that runs all the way down past the lighthouse and RNLI station to the point.

Visible for 17 nautical miles, this lighthouse was sectored so that mariners could identify particular shoals/sandbanks as well as the main channel through which to enter the Humber.

Easy to miss, hiding behind a fence on the east side of the track.

Fort Godwin was a coastal battery built to defend the ports along the Humber estuary. It opened in 1915 and was constructed for two 9.2-inch breech-loading Mark X guns. The battery was in use throughout the First World War and kept in use during the inter-war period. The battery was modified during the Second World War and in 1940 was equipped with a 4-inch Mark IX gun on naval mountings and a new pair of searchlights. The battery was retained for use after the war. The strongpoint, coastal artillery searchlight and the 4-inch gun emplacement have been destroyed. The gun aprons have both collapsed, half lying on the beach, half on the cliff top but highly unstable.

The World War I early warning acoustic mirror 335m north east of Kilnsea Grange is one of only four known surviving examples in the north east of England, and the only known example in the country that still retains its sounding column. The device survives well and makes a significant contribution to the study of early 20th century defences in England. At their most sophisticated, the devices could identify the sounds of surface vessels or aircraft up to 25 miles (c40km) away.

Kilnsea Wetlands is intended to provide refuge for passage and wintering roosting waders that leave the adjacent Humber mudflats at high tide to roost. Plenty of birdwatchers around, although some of the pools were dry when I visited in November.