Place:Bull Fort, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Bull Fort from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72: "BULL-SAND, a shoal in the mouth of the Humber, near Spurn head, E. R. Yorkshire. A light-ship is on it, in 4½ fathoms, showing a fixed light, visible at the distance of 10 miles." the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia Bull Sand Fort is a large large fortification in the mouth of the Humber estuary in northern England. It was built during the First World War and was used again during the Second World War. It is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from shore off Spurn Head. It is a 4-storey concrete building with 12-inch (300 mm) of armour on the seaward side, and originally armed with four 6-inch guns. It was built with great difficulty as its sandbank is 11 feet (3.4 m) below low water. Administratively, it is within the East Riding of Yorkshire and civil parish of Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire. Since Bull Fort was an extra parochial area, it was never in a wapentake.

Humberside 1974-1996

In 1974 most of what had been the East Riding of Yorkshire was joined with the northern part of Lincolnshire to became a new English county named Humberside. The urban and rural districts of the former counties were abolished and Humberside was divided into non-metropolitan districts. The new organization did not meet with the pleasure of the local citizenry and Humberside was wound up in 1996. The area north of the River Humber was separated into two "unitary authorities"—Kingston upon Hull covering the former City of Hull and its closest environs, and the less urban section to the west and to the north which, once again, named itself the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The phrase "Yorkshire and the Humber" serves no purpose in WeRelate. It refers to one of a series of basically economic regions established in 1994 and abolished for most purposes in 2011. See the Wikipedia article entited "Regions of England").