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Humber and Bridge
* 1981 – The Humber Bridge is opened to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
* 1981 – The opening of the Humber Bridge by Queen Elizabeth II in England, United Kingdom.
Humber Bridge suspension bridge viewed from the south east.
Below Trent Falls, the Humber passes the junction with the Market Weighton Canal on the north shore, the confluence of the River Ancholme on the south shore ; between North Ferriby and South Ferriby and under the Humber Bridge ; between Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Kingston upon Hull on the North bank ( where the River Hull joins ), then meets the North Sea between Cleethorpes on the Lincolnshire side and the long and thin ( but rapidly changing ) headland of Spurn Head to the North.
The estuary's only modern crossing is the Humber Bridge, which was once the longest single span suspension bridge in the world.
He replicated this achievement on the television programme Top Gear ( Series 10 Episode 6 ) when he raced James May who drove a Alfa Romeo 159 around the inland part of the estuary without using the Humber Bridge.
The Humber Bridge, near Kingston upon Hull, England, is a 2, 220 m ( 2, 428 yards ) single-span suspension bridge, which opened to traffic on 24 June 1981.
This established the Humber Bridge Board in order to manage and raise funds to build the bridge and buy the land required for the approach roads.
Dismay at the long wait for a crossing led to the writing by Christopher Rowe of a protest song entitled " The Humber Bridge ".
With a centre span of and a total length of, the Humber Bridge was the longest single-span suspension bridge in the world for 16 years.
The bridge twice forms part of the route of the Humber Bridge half marathon.
Until 1 April 2012 the Humber Bridge was the only major toll bridge in the United Kingdom to charge tolls to motorbikes (£ 1. 20 ); others such as the Severn crossings and the Dartford Crossing are free.
In 1996, the British Parliament passed the Humber Bridge ( Debts ) Act 1996 to reorganise the Humber Bridge Board's debts in order to ensure the bridge could be safely maintained.
In 2006 a Private Member's Bill — sponsored by Cleethorpes Labour MP Shona McIsaac — relating to the Humber Bridge, was introduced into Parliament.
The Humber Bridge Bill would have made amendments to the Humber Bridge Act 1959 " requiring the secretary of state to give directions to members of the Humber Bridge Board regarding healthcare and to review the possibility of facilitating journeys across the Humber Bridge in relation to healthcare ".

Humber and Act
The scheme was authorised by an Act of Parliament of 21 May 1772, entitled, " An Act for draining and preserving certain Commons, Low Grounds, and Carrs, in the parish of Market Weighton, and other adjacent parishes in the East Riding of the County of York ; and for making a navigable Cut or Canal, from Market Weighton to the River Humber.

Humber and promoted
She was promoted to Minister of State for Pensions at the Department for Work and Pensions in the October 2008 reshuffle, retaining her Ministerial brief for Yorkshire and the Humber.

Humber and by
In his Life of St Willibrord, Alcuin writes that Wilgils, called a paterfamilias, had founded an oratory and church at the mouth of the Humber, which had fallen into Alcuin's possession by inheritance.
Meanwhile a small band led by Balliol had set sail from the Humber.
In the first half of the eighth century, the dominant Anglo-Saxon ruler was King Æthelbald of Mercia, who by 731 had become the overlord of all the provinces south of the river Humber.
At the same time, another Kübelwagen also captured in North Africa had been dissected in Britain by engineers of the Humber Car Company, whose report was equally unfavourable and dismissive.
Both Wessex and Kent were ruled by strong kings at that time, but within fifteen years the contemporary chronicler Bede describes Æthelbald as ruling all England south of the river Humber.
The lack of evidence should not obscure the fact that Bede, who was after all a contemporary chronicler, summarized the situation of England in 731 by listing the bishops in office in southern England, and adding that " all these provinces, together with the others south of the river Humber and their kings, are subject to Æthelbald, King of the Mercians.
The kingdom of Deira, lying between the North York Moors and the Humber, was ruled by a series of Oswiu's kinsmen, initially as a separate kingdom, later as a form of appanage for Oswiu's sons.
It has been owned since 1960 by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and is a designated National Nature Reserve, Heritage Coast and is part of the Humber Flats, Marshes and Coast Special Protection Area.
Material is washed down the coast by longshore drift and accumulates to form the long, narrow embankment in the sheltered waters inside the mouth of the Humber estuary.
According to Geoffrey, the Humber, invariably referred to by the Latin word for river, was named after " Humber the Hun " who drowned there while trying to invade in the earliest days of Britain's settlement.
Following their acquisition of the patent, all English and Welsh lightvessels were maintained by Trinity House, with the exception of the four vessels in the approaches to the River Mersey, which were maintained by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board until 1973, and those in the Humber Estuary, which were the responsibility of the Humber Conservancy Board.
* Bull ( Bull Sands, mouth of the Humber Estuary ; maintained by Humber Conservancy Board )
* Humber ( maintained by Humber Conservancy Board )
* Spurn ( Spurn Head ; maintained by Humber Conservancy Board.
The Aire and Calder still fulfils its original purpose of linking Leeds and Wakefield with York and the Humber ( and thence the Trent ), although the routes by which this is achieved have changed significantly.
T and C Hawksley, assisted by James Abernethy, were asked to report on whether a canal from Sheffield suitable for medium sized coasters could be built, to the Ouse, the Trent or the Humber.
It spans the Humber ( the estuary formed by the rivers Trent and Ouse ) between Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Hessle on the north bank, connecting the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire – both of which were previously in the non-metropolitan county of Humberside.
Prior to the bridge opening, commuters would go from one bank to the other either by using the ferry that ran between Hull and New Holland, Lincolnshire or driving via the M62, M18 and M180 motorways, crossing the River Ouse near Goole ( connected to the Humber ) in the process.

Humber and Kingston
Ports on the Humber include Kingston upon Hull ( better known as simply Hull ), Grimsby, Immingham, New Holland and Killingholme.
In 1905 Earle's Shipbuilding at Kingston upon Hull on the Humber built.
* The Humber Bridge: Previously the world's longest bridge, the Humber bridge links the counties of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire near the port city of Kingston upon Hull
The road restarts east, and then continues north past Barton-upon-Humber and over the Humber Bridge before terminating at Hessle near Kingston upon Hull.
At Hull the MS & L had a goods depot on Kingston Street, west of the southern end of the Humber Dock ( now the Marina ) and north of Albert Dock.
: The River Humber is in northern England, flowing past Kingston upon Hull to reach the sea.
* Humber Bridge ( the longest bridge in the UK, linking Kingston upon Hull with North Lincolnshire.
The modern civil parish of Cottingham has boundaries formed approximately by the A164 Beverley to Humber bridge bypass to the west, by Kingston upon Hull to the east, in particular the edges of Orchard Park estate and North Hull estate.
* Hull and Humber Ports-( Kingston upon Hull )

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