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Riverside Walkway is a
public amenity with areas that locals and visitors alike can
enjoy. The walkway has a 1,000 metre frontage of the Humber
with spectacular views of the countryside all round. The Trans
Pennine Trail and the Wolds Way both cross on the way to the
Mersey and Filey. 3,000 trees and shrubs have been planted,
seats and paths created. It is a far cry from when it was
a waste landfill site up until 1981 and left abandoned until
the Parish Council became the owners in late 1986 and at the
same time purchased the Reed Pond
Some work has to be carried
out occasionally to keep it free from too much reed growth
and to create habitats for wild life. Ings Fields are adjacent
to the Reed Pond on the west side and are privately owned
and there is no public right of way over them. The fields
are subject to a management agreement with the local authority
and the owner to protect the flora, and fauna, in particular,
the rare sedge carex divisa (its continuation encouraged
by allowing saline water from the reed pond to permeate Ings
Fields).
Brochures
can be obtained from the Village Post Office
Wendy Dobbs Chairman of Riverside Walkway Committee can be
contacted on 632 650
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Riverside Walkway
Project Report
Visitors to the area in recent
weeks will have observed work on the new woodland path to
allow access for less mobile visitors, with or without wheelchairs,
which should be completed by the end of February. The work
is being co-ordinated with BTCV
and the Walkway Committee and financed with a Big Lottery
BBC Breathing Spaces Grant. See Pictures
The majority of
the hard working volunteers are from outside the village.
They are in great contrast to the Ferriby and Hessle young
people who in the early hours of Saturday morning on 10th
November 2007 lit a bonfire on top of the "Boat Pavement"
- a memorial to Ted Wright who discovered the Bronze Age
boats on our foreshore. Two information boards were destroyed
and one of the flagpoles was damaged. Restoration will incur
considerable costs. Police were called to this act of vandalism,
which was witnessed by a Ferriby resident. Further action
by the police is awaited.
Contact Wendy Dobbs tel: 01482
632650 email: wendy@drdobbs.karoo.co.uk
Our Project Manager, Kevin Rawlininson of BTCV (British
Trust for Conservation Volunteers) can be contacted by phone
on 01482 620309 or by email: K.Rawlinson@btcv.org.uk
All work must be completed by 28th June 2008.
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