Snaith Heritage Trail

History

The Snaith Heritage Trail is the first of fifteen Heritage Walks in the Vale of Snaith, in the west of the East Riding, which were created and published in 2012 with grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and LEADER Coast, Wolds and Waterways. 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 and their history. The walks link existing rights of way and minor roads, and each has at least one large heritage information board.

At 1.5 miles it is the shortest of the fifteen, and its walk card says it is easy and suitable for wheelchairs. It starts at the free car park at Snaith railway station and is based on a Town Trail that the Snaith and District Heritage Society created in 1990. The points on the trail include the railway station of 1848, the old steam corn mill that later made wooden clog soles and has housed the Old Mill Brewery since 1983, the 18th-century town lock-up, the Old Grammar School built in 1626, and Snaith Priory church, where the card says an Anglo-Saxon church stood before building began around 1100.