The River Hull a Journey through time - Lee Patrick Wilson

The River Hull, an ancient waterway 22 Miles long, located on the Northern banks of the Humber Estuary, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The Chalk Stream River, fed from the Yorkshire Wolds is steeped in Human History which dates back to the last glacial period and has been used as a waterway for thousands of years.

Perhaps Palaeolithic man fished and watered on its banks. Mesolithic man inhabited the River Hull Valley and the nearby Wolds Valley, navigating the River Hull at least 7,000 years ago and perhaps 10,000 years prior. The River Hull was used and occupied for thousands of years by pre Roman Celtic Tribes of Britain, the regions tribe “The Parisi” where recorded by the Romans as fighters and boat fairing travellers.

The River and region has well documented history from the 1086 Domesday census to the current day, where the River is still a working River, although without the prosperity that the global expansion brought to the River and in Particular the City of Kingston Upon Hull from the 13th Century onwards to the early 20th Century when many thousands of ships and people moved to and from the river as the global population boomed in the industrial age and as they made Journey & trade with the New World.

As I explore the River Hull I imagine the ghosts of our ancient ancestors making journey up and down the river flowing with the tide navigating through the rugged forest country of ancient wild Britain, the hollow boat and the river the only means of travelling any great distance, discovering new hunting grounds safe from

the reach of rival tribes and sea invaders, making settlements which would one day become the modern age.