The
Humber is a large tidal
estuary in northern
England. It starts at Trent Falls at the confluence of the
River Ouse and the
River Trent; it then passes the junction with the Market Weighton Canal on the north shore, the junction with the
River Ancholme on the south shore; past North Ferriby and South Ferriby, under the
Humber Bridge and past
Barton-upon-Humber and then into the
North Sea at
Spurn.
In the Anglo-Saxon period, it was a major boundary, separating Northumbria from the southern kingdoms. Indeed the name Northumbria simply indicates the area North of the Humber. It currently forms the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire between Faxfleet and Spurn Head.
Two fortifications were built in the mouth of the river in 1914, the Humber Forts.
See also
Humber was also the name of a make of British car, which disappeared after mergers in the 1960s. See Humber (car).
