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Snitterby Waterfall - upstream from Brandy Wharf.
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Brigg Blog recently signalled our intention to get some pictures of Snitterby Waterfall - a very interesting but little known and perhaps slightly WEIR-D feature on our local waterway.
The intrepid Ken Harrison beat us to it by mounting his own expedition to the upper reaches of the Ancholme and came back with some prize specimens of the photographic kind.Proof, if proof were needed, that Snitterby Waterfall does exist - even though few Brigg Blog followers will have seen it.
Ken tells us it is the confluence of the River Rase with the southern reaches of the River Ancholme.
Here are his helpful directions...
On the Waddingham-Brandy Wharf road go to 'Clock House' junction, signposted Snitterby Carr. (From Brandy Wharf the road junction is on the left.)
Follow the straight, narrow, tarmacked lane to Snitterby Bridge over the River Ancholme.
The weir can been heard from some distance.
Use discretion by choosing either the public footpath (somewhat overgrown) alongside the private track leading to Bridge Farm, or by crossing the bridge to the east side of the Ancholme and follow the grassed farm track for about 150m to 'Snitterby Waterfall'.
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River Rase on the left, River Ancholme on the right.
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The River Ancholme looking south from Snitterby Bridge. Middle distance on the left is the junction (Snitterby Waterfall) with the River Rase. Far distance: the Ancholme's Harlem Hill Lock.
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4 comments:
If you look closely in the 3rd snap...you should just make out a grazing pair of white rhino on the left embankment.
On the right bank is a trumpeting elephant and a couple of chimps in the bushes.
If you look closely in the 3rd snap...you should just make out a grazing pair of white rhino on the left embankment.
On the right bank is a trumpeting elephant and a couple of chimps in the bushes.
Near the end of the last Ice Age, the drainage in the now Ancholme Valley flowed in the opposite direction.
Where the Humber is was a ice, or glacial plug and melting glacial flows ran from north to south.
THis was the time when Britain was attached to mainland Europe by the low-lying Doggerland.
There is evidence that places like the Number and north Norfolk formed part of a massive Rhine drainage basin, with the main river flowing northwards....
With a lower level sea, the bed of Ancholme Valley was about 10m (30 feet) deeper than present..
With the glaciers melting over much of the northern hemisphere, sea-level rose...and silt, sand and vegetation in filled the course of the river..and when the Humber ice plug disappeared, the Ancholme drainage changed direction......while Doggerland was overwhelmed by rising sea levels....
Ps Nige....I'm not a photographer...just an old fogie with camera...
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