Spurn. Straight to the Point. A short documentary investigating the tip of Spurn Point.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Spurn Point is a curving spit that stretches for three and a half miles across the Humber Estuary. It is only 50 metres wide in places, making it look like an elongated tongue. Spurn is made up of a series of sand and shingle banks held together by Marram grass and Seabuckthorn. It separates the North Sea from the Humber Estuary and forms a protective barrier which stops the full force of the North Sea from going up the Humber. Spurn is one of the most fragile and unique environments in the whole of the UK
Fabulous. Love the quirky feel and ministry of funny walks near the beginning. I must return there. You’re inspiring me again. Best video of Spurn Point I have seen. Well done 👍
Thank you Sheila, I'm delighted you were amused with my John Cleese 😄
And thank you for the support and encouragement you have given me.
It really does matter.
Davey
Great video with lovely footage ❤
Thank you, it was a tiring but awesome trek.😊
Well done.
Thank you my friend 😊
stunning views pal well done Dave
Thanks buddy 😁
Nice one yet again Tim, I gather your local guy. May see you about one day mate 👍Trying to get out with my 4pro but life is full of commitments 😪
Yes I'm local, we go when the weather permits, so quite often it's last minute.
I'm a full-time carer, which means I can't go too far for too long.
My name is Davey btw, Timothy is my mini 4 Pro. 🥸
I well remember DRIVING down, and as for the railway!
The road was completely destroyed in 2013...I remember being driven there as a kid.
Great video! ❤ Love it. Liked and subscribed 😃👍
Marvellous news!! 😊😊😊
Brilliant vid how it has changed
Thank you, It has changed a lot since I was a kid.
Interesting, but impaired by the choice of inappropriate, intrusive background music. I turned the sound off. Spurn is a place for silence apart from the sounds of nature, the wind and the tide, the waves arriving on the sea shore. Spurn has reverted to a place of peace and contemplation, a place to listen.
I understand the music may not be for everyone. I am first and foremost, a musician, a guitarist of 40 years. All the music on my videos are performed by myself in a band or solo.
I completely get that the videos will be more emersive with the sounds of the sea and birds, currently I don't have the right microphone to record those sounds during our adventures. The wind ends up taking over everything and is unusable.
Thank you for your feedback, I really do appreciate it. The channel is a new venture for me and I am trying to improve all the time and with every video.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video even with the sound off. 😁
Davey
Timothy, I sent an email with a study on Spurn. It's very interesting. Here are a few excerpts:
The neck shows a net accretion of 0.38 km2 between 1818 and 2018 but much larger variability decade on decade (Table II, Figures 6 and 7). The neck appears to have attained its largest areal extent in 1885-1910, after which it reduced. Erosion of the neck in the 1850s is the only time the whole spit was eroded and is coincident with major storms between 1849 and 1856 which caused the spit to be breached (Figure 6; Trinity House, 1940). Significant accretion on the neck between 1864 and 1910 coincides with human intervention and the installation of coastal groynes and artificial dune creation (Figure 6). Erosion between maps published in 1947 and 1960 probably reflects the erosion that took place from the 1942 and 1953 storms. The 1942 storm surge is documented to have caused severe erosion on the eastern shoreline (de Boer, 1981). The 1953 storm, whilst failing to breach Spurn, did cause extensive damage to the Kilnsea sea wall and erosion of the dunes (Crowther, 2006). Whilst sediment moved on-shore in 1960-1980 allowing the spit to grow again, since that time it has been steadily declining in size.
The head shows large decade-on-decade variability and, despite its stability in terms of position and its extension to the southwest, a slight net erosion of 0.16 km2 over the period 1818-2018 (Figures 6 and 7; Table II). The head shows significant erosion in the period 1828-1855 (as elsewhere on the spit) associated with the breaching event and cut-off of sediment supply. Growth was slow in the period 1855-1928 as sediment was intercepted on the neck by the newly installed groynes. Significant accretion occurred in the period 1956-1960 and significant erosion in the period 1960-1980. The 1960s saw four major storm surges (Steers et al., 1979) followed by a major storm surge in 1978 (Lee and Pethick, 2018). These may account for the erosion of the head in this period (Figure 7).
Initially, the timing of the erosion and accretion of the head appears at odds with that occurring on the neck. This is probably partly an artefact of the neck-head boundary moving through time, as combined the neck and head show a net accretion of 0.23 km2. However, the head is at the effective end of the sediment transport pathway and largely driven by what happens further up-current. With a long-shore drift rate of 500 m a−1, sediment eroded at the north end of the neck could be at the southerly tip of the neck within 8 years. Erosion from the head does not look like it is followed with significant movement of sediment back on-shore leading to accretion, presumably because the near-shore zone shelves more steeply here and tidal currents are high enough to sweep sediment away. This loss drives the overall size of the spit. The map data also show that most of the time erosion and release of sediment from the East Yorkshire coastline and the anchor leads to a sediment influx to the North Sea side of the neck (Figure 8A). This then passes through to the head where it is either moved off-shore or more permanently accretes at the end of the Humber estuary side of the spit, allowing for spit extension (Figure 8A). However, the data also show that during breach events this sediment transport switches as sediment is able to move to the Humber estuary side of the spit when crossing the breach zone (Figure 8B). This leads to a significant accretion of sediment on the Humber estuary side of the head. However, once the breach is filled, this newly accreted sediment appears not to last as it is rapidly eroded away or blown inland as dunes.
That the new mapping shows an overall consistency of the position and alignment of the spit from 1818 onwards may reflect anthropogenic impacts as well as natural processes (Figure 5). Documents show that significant anthropogenic efforts were made to stabilize the spit after the breach events of 1849-1856. Gravel extraction from the spit was banned in 1854 although it continued in a reduced form until the early 20th century (Lee and Pethick, 2018). Breaches were filled with (less erodible) chalk blocks on the estuary side (de Boer, 1981). From 1853, revetments and groynes were constructed until, by 1926, there were groynes along the length of the spit on the North Sea side of the neck and head (Trinity House, 1940; Crowther, 1997). Finally, sand trapping behind installed wattle fences led to the creation of more dunes which were artificially planted with marram to stabilize them. By 1878 the groynes and dune creation efforts had led to a wide (~90 m) beach on the North Sea side and established dunes ~50 m in width extending over 3 km along the neck (Pickwell, 1878 cited in Lee and Pethick, 2018). Groynes and revetment structures have not been maintained and have failed during the latter half of the 1900s. This appears to have caused more variability in sediment accretion and erosion, particularly in the neck, for the period 1980-2018.
Thank you so much. Very useful knowledge. 👌
My name is Davey btw, Timothy is my trusty drone 😉
@@timothystravels8492 I knew Timothy was the drone's name but wasn't sure if was a Junior? LOL.
First class. It's beyond me why those perfectly habitable houses are not put to generating income from tourism. What an adventure that would be for a family with kids...and a nature reserve to boot!!
Now there is an idea!! 🤔😍