VISITOR INFORMATION HOW TO FIND THE RESERVE Opening Times: Open every day of the year. The Humber Bridge Country Park is situated in Hessle, Humber Bridge Public Toilets: Humber Bridge car park and Hessle adjacent to the Humber Bridge and River Humber. Foreshore car park. By road, approach on the A63 (5 miles west of Hull), or on the A164 (10 miles from Beverley). Accessibility: The park is accessible to people with Country Park disabilities, including wheelchair users. Park and enter Humber Bridge free car park: at the step-free Hessle Foreshore entrance. OS Explorer Map 293: Grid ref: TA 023 253. Postcode: HU13 0LN Local Nature Reserve Refreshments: The Country Park Inn on Hessle Foreshore. Hessle Foreshore free car park: Dogs: Keep your dog under close control, and do not OS Explorer Map 293: Grid ref: TA 023 254. disturb wildlife or other visitors. Please clean up after Postcode: HU13 0HB your dog.

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Tourist Information Centre: In the Humber Bridge A164 car park. Boothferry Rd A1105

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Enjoy a Safe Visit A15 To Goole BoothferryTo Hessle Rd Camping, fishing and fire lighting are not permitted. A63 Square Ferriby Rd Ferriby Rd If cycling in the park keep to the paths and be mindful Bridge Davenport Ave

Car Woodfield Ln A15 of other visitors. Clive Park Sullivan Southfield Keep out of the ponds and do not climb the cliffs. Humber Way Bridge Country Park Southfield To A63 Lincoln Redcliff Rd WHAT TO DO To Hull A63

Humber Bridge Foreshore Car Park Nature Trails Cliff Rd Sculptural Seats Tree Trail The Country Park is on the National Cycle Orienteering Course Network. There are cycle racks in the Humber Bird Feeding Station Bridge car park and at some of the country park entrances. FIND OUT MORE The nearest railway station is Hessle (¾ mile) Enquiries: 08457 48 49 50. www.nationalrail.co.uk Countryside access team There are bus stops on Ferriby Road next to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council Bridge car park and in Hessle Square (¾ mile). (01482) 395207 www.eastriding.gov.uk/countrysideaccess EYMS bus routes 56/57/66/155/156 Hull to Hessle. [email protected] BUSCALL enquiries: (01482) 222222. Friends of the Humber Bridge Country Park www.eyms.co.uk Become a Friend of the Country Park and support the protection and conservation of the park. East Riding of Yorkshire Council will, on request, provide www.humberbridgecountrypark.co.uk this document in Braille, audio or large print format. [email protected] Please telephone (01482) 393939. To Goole/Hull (A63)

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Bridge To Goole/Hull (A63) Country Car Park A UNIQUE AND SPECIAL PLACE Park Ferriby Road HUMBER BRIDGE Entrance To Hessle Square COUNTRY PARK The Country Park is a 48 acre wood with open meadows and Toilets (1km)Coach wildlife ponds. The distinctive chalk cliffs which surround the Lorry Park Park Local Nature Reserve To Humber Bridge Bus and Beverley park on three sides, give rise to the park’s local name of Little To Hesslewood Stop Switzerland. The bright white chalk cliffs were said to resemble O f fi c e P a r k Picnic Tourist Site Information USEFUL CONTACTS miniature snow covered Alps! Bridge Car Centre Link Country Car Park Park Countryside Officer Path Park (01482) 395207 HISTORY Entrance Toilets Coach Police (non-emergencies) Cliff Steep Slope of Park 101 The Humber Bridge Country Park opened in 1986, five Trail 1:5 for 10m Tourist Information years after the Humber Bridge was built. In 2002 the Park (3km) (01482) 640852 Picnic Tourist East Riding of Yorkshire Council was designated a Local Nature Reserve in recognition of Meadow Site Information 24 Hour Call Centre its wildlife value and importance to the local community. Trail Car Centre Little (01482) 393939 (1.25km) Park [email protected] The site has a long history of chalk quarrying, dating from the Entrance Pond Trail Steep Slope of 13th century until the 1960s. Originally the chalk was extracted 1:5 for 10m (2.5km) Bus by hand and taken by horse and cart to the unique five-sailed Stop

NO ACCESS Whiting Mill on Hessle Foreshore. Here it was ground into Little Switzerland Link powdered whiting and loaded onto boats to be transported Path To Goole Entrance away on the Humber. Steps Emergency Vehicle Cliff Access Only Trail NO (3km) A C RESERVE MANAGEMENT C

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Bench NO ACCESS S A63 Clive Sullivan Way Meadow S Trail The Country Park is managed by the countryside access (1.25km) To Goole team. Our goal is to balance recreational activities with Emergency Vehicle Sculptured Access Only Pond Trail To NorthN O (2.5km) conserving wildlife. While some meadows are mown Seat A Ferriby (3.5km)C C

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S A63 Clive Sullivan Way for games and picnics, others are only cut once a year S to encourage wild flowers and butterflies. There are Car Park Steps Telephone To Hull

22 species of butterflies recorded across the reserve. To North Yorkshire Wolds Way Bridge Humber Ferriby (3.5km) National Trail / TPT Bench Country Car Park In the woods the mature ash trees are nurtured for their Bird Park Inn Toilets Car Park Play Feeding Ground insects and nesting birds. Other trees such as hawthorn, Sculptured Station To Hull

Yorkshire Wolds Way River Humber Bridge Humber Seat elder and crab apple are encouraged to provide ample National Trail / TPT Country Car Park Toilets berries for hungry resident and migrating birds. Picnic Park Inn Play Ground Telephone Table Black The ponds provide an excellent home for amphibians, River Humber Mill Humber Hessle Bird including specially protected great crested newts. They Access for all at Rescue Feeding Hessle Foreshore Entrance Black Foreshore Station are not fishing ponds and are never stocked with fish as Mill Entrance Humber this would be detrimental to amphibians. Please do Hessle Rescue Picnic Access for all at Table Hessle Foreshore Entrance Foreshore not remove any creatures from the ponds. Entrance