* 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 Act, promoted by Kingston Upon Hull Corporation, was passed in 1959.

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 ".

Tostig appears to have received little local support, and further raids into Lincolnshire and near the River Humber met with no more success, so Tostig retreated to Scotland, where he remained for a time.

In a second departure attempt in the spring of 1608, arrangements were made with a Dutch merchant to pick up church members along the Humber estuary at Immingham near Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Instead, his ships made for Ravenspurn, near the mouth of the River Humber, where Henry Bolingbroke had landed in 1399 on his way to reclaim the Duchy of Lancaster and ultimately depose Richard II.

Eadred “ reduced all the land of Northumbria to his control ; and the Scots granted him oaths that they would do all that he wanted .” Moreover, in 947 he convened Archbishop Wulfstan and the Northumbrian witan at Tanshelf ( now in Pontefract, West Yorkshire ), on the boundary of the Humber ( near an old Roman road ), where they pledged their obedience to him.

Another hypothesis is: since its name recurs in the name of the " Humber Brook " near " Humber Court " in Herefordshire or Worcestershire, the word humbr-may have been a word that meant " river ", or something similar, in an aboriginal language that had been spoken in England before the Celts migrated there ( compare Tardebigge ).

It then flows through the city of York and the towns of Selby and Goole before joining with the River Trent at Trent Falls, near the village of Faxfleet, to form the Humber Estuary.

The Roman Ridge is believed to form part of an alternative route from Doncaster to York via Castleford and Tadcaster, as a diversion of the major Roman road Ermine Street, which may have been used to avoid having to cross the river Humber near North Ferriby during rough weather conditions over the Humber.

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.

Residential development consists primarily of single-family dwellings, although several large multi-storey hi rise condominium developments have been built in south Etobicoke near the Humber River over the past few years.

The source of the river is located over above sea level in the Staffordshire moorlands, near to the Gritstone escarpment of the Roaches, and next to the A53 Leek to Buxton road and only a few hundred yards away from Black Brook which ultimately, through the Dane and Weaver, flows into the Irish Sea ; however the Churnet, through the Dove, Trent and Humber Estuary ultimately flows into the North Sea.

The main branch runs for about from the Niagara Escarpment in the northwest, while another other major branch, known as the East Humber River, starts at Lake St. George in the Oak Ridges Moraine near Aurora to the northeast.

The first of these, Fort Douville or Magasin Royale, was built in 1688 about 2 km north of Lake Ontario on the Humber near what is today Old Mill.

* Humber River ( Newfoundland ), near Corner Brook in Canada

* 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

* January 2-" Humber Railway Disaster " 32 men and boys were killed upon the head on collision of a Grand Trunk Railway commuter train with an unscheduled freight train # 42C near Toronto, Ontario.

The larger homes tend to back onto the Humber Valley ravine and are found along Baby Point Road and Baby Point Crescent, while the smaller homes are found near the Jane Street and Baby Point Road entrance.

The waters of Grenadier Pond, Rennie Pond and the Humber River all are at or near the level of Lake Ontario.

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.

Ermine Street continues north as the B1207, meeting the Humber near Winteringham.

The remaining people fled south where Locrinus allied with Kamber and defeated Humber near a river.

Winterton is near to the banks of the Humber and is south-west of the Humber Bridge which can be seen from many parts of the town.

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.

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 )