Cowden, Yorkshire
| Cowden | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 Cowden Hill | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA239403 |
| Location: | 53°50’39"N, 0°7’4"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Hull |
| Postcode: | HU11 |
| Dialling code: | 01964 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Beverley and Holderness |
Cowden (or Little Cowden) is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on Holderness. It is to be found five miles south of Hornsea and lies just east of the B1242 road towards the North Sea coast. Its name means a hill where charcoal was burnt.[1]
The Royal Air Force operated a 600-acre bombing range on the beach at RAF Cowden between 1959 and 1998. The range was closed due to coastal erosion, which is quite common on the East Riding coast.[2][3] The erosion regularly reveals buried ordnance, which requires the MoD bomb disposal teams to attend and make them safe.
The local HM Coastguard team at Hornsea frequently attend reports of ordnance in the first instance and send the details to the Humber Coastguard Operations Centre and EOD ops centre to decide on the appropriate means of disposal.
No. 5131(BD) Squadron used to deploy from RAF Wittering in Northamptonshire to make the old bombs safe but were disbanded in 2019 with the British Army and Royal Navy EOD teams continuing to operate nationally.[4][5][6]
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Cowden, Yorkshire) |
- Cowden, Yorkshire in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 126 ISBN 0198691033
- ↑ Burkeman, Oliver (1 September 2000). "Erosion tips RAF shells on to beach". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/01/oliverburkeman.
- ↑ Pye, K.; Blott, S. J. (December 2015). "Spatial and temporal variations in soft-cliff erosion along the Holderness coast, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK". Journal of Coastal Conservation 19 (6): 785–808. doi:10.1007/s11852-015-0378-8.
- ↑ "The beach where it's not safe to pick up the shells". The Yorkshire Post. 26 July 2012. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/beach-where-its-not-safe-pick-shells-1894770. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ↑ Townend, Jon (26 July 2012). "BLOWN AWAY: E YORKS: Bombs and rockets made safe on old beach target range". Hull Daily Mail: p. 18. SSN 1741-3419.
- ↑ Burkeman, Oliver (1 September 2000). "National Roundup: Erosion tips RAF shells on to beach". The Guardian: p. 8. SSN 0261-3077.
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 4.