Pollington Heritage and Nature

History

Pollington Heritage and Nature is one of fifteen Heritage Walks in the Vale of Snaith, which were created and published in 2012 with grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and LEADER Coast, Wolds and Waterways; four of them start at Pollington Village Hall. Snaith and Cowick Together led the project, East Riding of Yorkshire Council provided the walk mapping, and local people, including children from the local schools, researched the walks. The walks link existing rights of way and minor roads, and each has at least one large heritage information board.

The walk is 5.25 miles, graded easy on its card, and uses a section of the Trans Pennine Trail. The card points to the pinfold, where a heritage board tells of a late 4th or early 5th century coffin, the blacksmiths, and RAF Snaith, the Second World War bomber airfield that was actually in Pollington; the ruins of the airfield's old cinema, used by RAF personnel and local people; a field where a Quaker burial ground is believed to have been used until about 1760, Pollington having had a large Quaker community in the 17th century; the remains of No 4 Swing Bridge over the canal, which would have been the only access to Balne Croft Farm when the canal was first built; the banking and walls that supported a branch of the Hull to Barnsley Railway; and Pollington Lock, one of the largest on the waterway system, whose heritage board gives the history of the canal.