Swinefleet Warping Drain information

Swinefleet Warping Drain is an artificial waterway in the English county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, which was built to allow silt to be deposited...

by Swinefleet Warping Drain. This was authorised by an Act of Parliament obtained by Ralph Creyke, and parts of it were completed by 1821. Warping was...

A161 road (Swinefleet Road), covering an area of 1,980.59 hectares (4,894.1 acres). It is bordered to the east by the Swinefleet Warping Drain, to the south...

River Cole River Rea River Anker River Sow River Penk River Ouse Swinefleet Warping Drain River Don River Rother River Doe Lea River Hipper River Drone River...

siding, and Goole Fields siding, before the railway crossed over Swinefleet Warping Drain on a 120-foot (37 m) steel girder bridge to reach Reedness station...

the water drain away. In this way poor soils were covered with fertile fine silt (or warp), and their rentable value was increased. Warping was costly...

cover the land, resulting in silt building up on the surface. The Swinefleet Warping Drain can still be seen, running along the eastern edge of the moors...

from the station through Reedness Goods Yard, and then cross over Swinefleet Warping Drain by walking along the main line of the railway. His request was...

exploitation to the east of the Swinefleet Warping Drain was always on a smaller scale than on Thorne Moors to the west of the drain, and in 1993 the boundary...

achieved. Two other schemes deserve mention. The first was for Swinefleet Warping Drain, to the east of the moors, the first part of which opened in 1821...