Old Yorkshire : Dane's Dyke 

Can't believe I knew nothing about the history of Danes dyke, love that place used to go there as a child and hunt the rock pools. Always assumed it was all natural

Who the heck gave a thumbs down to this facinating video!!???

Just love this place so much, my childhood, my adult hood and my children’s hood, we all love it. Beautiful 💕

Very informative video, thanks a lot 😊

These video's are brilliant, and in that wonderful Hull accent =👌.

I've actually walked (and mountain biked) the whole length of Danes Dyke. It's an interesting bit of 'wild country' hidden between the fields. Once you cross the road from the Southern end, the undergrowth gets thicker and the noise of traffic and people gets dimmer. Nature takes over.

..fantastic video again ,still got some more left to watch ..learning alot about our area , ...my interest in the dark ages and our local people who were part of it always fascinates me , ..

Great video.

Great videos thanks - I've watched several now and fascinating to know more of the history of East Yorkshire. There would probably have been small settlements all over the place - I found flint implements & pieces of pottery to the west of Danes Dyke, north of Flamborough Road when I was a young lad.

love it from hull granny now in withernsea

One interesting theory is that wandering tribes of humans on Doggerland would have been able to see the white chalk cliffs at Flamborough for a considerable distance. The Southern end of Danes Dyke would have been the way for those wanderers to get up onto the top of the cliffs, and from there, they are on top of the Woods, and could head further inland

I’m local lad and love your videos I was there yesterday with my welly’s on where you are stud on the beach there has been some bad land slides now but also there is hole other side with loads of earth works it’s hard to see on google earth till you walk up there and the scale of it is so amazing I also had my welly’s on and was in the little beck that flows throw there has been lands slides there to and you can see exactly what you are saying about the crushed stones it’s like the banks been cut out and now you can see the time line of history but the stream it self is so interesting as at some points it’s just solid piece of chalk and stone but the Size of the other stones sat around like they made maybe dams for bathing in or fishing it’s so interesting Thankyou so much ..🙂...P.s I am really sorry about my spelling and my use of words if it’s hard to make sense of my wrighting I am really sorry 😐 I just struggle with special needs sorry and Thankyou for great video but definitely please get you welly’s on make another too and have a explore to the other side 🙂

Interesting, thank you. I would've appreciated a sketch or artist's impression of how the dyke would've looked in it's heyday. Were the trees present, for example, or just bare, steep slopes?

Many thanks for another fascinating historical trip down memory lane. I'm hoping you may produce an episode on the the lost East Yorkshire villages of yesteryear that now lay miles out to sea thanks to shifting sands and coastal errosion.

Superb...

Great video, I never knew the place had so much history behind it.

omg yur bringing all my childhood memories bk

Beautiful cinematography! Good film x

interesting video. i visited once and was shown around by local author and all round nice guy paul sinclair.

Great place. I have visited on perfect sunny days and during torrential rain.

Fascinating stuff. Thanks, as always!

Paul Sinclair is the man , knows this place like the back of his hand

Enjoyed this v much. Thanks!

Just watched the bloopers 2 video. That piece where you where near Cottingham railway station, I walked the same path yesterday the 18th February 2021.

Been here many a time. We used to have a great Aunt who lived in one of the small houses before you turn down the lane to Danes Dyke beach.. I always remember she had an outside loo out the back and I disliked very much using it back in the 70's / 80's !

Love watching your videos. You put information across so well!

"The Gypsies of the Danes' Dike: A Story of Hedge-Side Life in England, in the Year 1855" brought me here.

Absolutely love these videos! Just discovered them and watched the lot this weekend- lockdown heaven 💜 Hope you don’t mind me saying but I’d absolutely love to see some history on our parks, there’s just so much history in them and I’m certain I don’t know even a little bit compared to HHN 💜 Thank you for creating these videos, they’re brilliant!

It's hard to believe that there would be enough people to complete the digging on such a scale ? And must have taken many years to complete ? This also tells us there must have been something worth protecting from marauders or whoever was attacking the area. I wonder if there is any evidence of settlements in Flamborough from that period ?

So U could call it Real Yorkshire !! Nearest I have is Bodicea or thought to be Bodiceas earthworks at Amesbury Banks in Epping Forest outside London…

Superb

A village on Flamborough Head? The man hours to build that earthwork would have been enormous, at a time when subsistence farming was the rule. The organisation of the building, planning, surveying, etc., would have been quite something. Collection of the labour, housing, feeding, directing all involved, bespeaks a serious level of population control. You've only scratched the surface! More please.

Another Great vid Mr nerd...I was in cottingham station only the other day and noticed map/route of the stations the trains went to before ending at Scarborough but noticed some now closed/defunct stations....it got me thinking would the hull history nerd be interested? ......

I imagine the bronze aged Yorkshire folk were like your typical Yorkshire folk, equally happy and miserable

Sorry about the blue bells. I did post a comment a bit earlier than this but it appears not to show itself.

Paul Sinclair could school you on danes dyke that place has a history of paranormal activity ( but of course even hard facts & data won’t sway the closed mind of a none believer ) thanks to paul more people are visiting the beautiful place.

Blue bells

You wonder what the people were like 3000 years ago, the general assumption is 25 years for a generation , (perhaps less as life expectancy was shorter in those days would mean 120 generations ago) so they were just like you and me in many respects, they had intelligence and where quite capable of many of the dictates of a modern society and where more than capable of logical reasoning. For a undertaking of this size would mean a communal effort perhaps over many years so that would suggest Defence or Religion, turning this around from a different angle ,could mean the "Dyke" was a boundary to separate the area for the worship of some Sea Deity and this was holy ground so to speak.. Just a Thought.

Brilliant video. I remember visiting Dane's Dyke with primary school.

It would be better if you went into all the paranormal shit that happens there.❤