THE RECLAIMED LAND OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 223 



next enclosure, though it is given by Baines ("History and 

 Directory of Yorks.," 1823). By that time, Cherry Cob 

 Sands and Saltagh Sand had been embanked and united ; 

 the Keyingham drain flowed on the north of both, and as its 

 outfall was removed from the present Sands Bridge to No 

 Man's Friend in 1772, there could have been no channel 

 between them even at high water, otherwise the tide would 

 have entered the drain above the clough. Jeffrey's map of 

 1772 shows a complete channel round Sunk Island, and the 

 Keyingham drainage water flowing over the mud on the west 

 of the Island, but by 1797, as shown on the drainage plan 

 which Poulson copied from an unacknowledged source, the 

 channel on the west had warped up to such an extent that 

 the water from Keyingham was turned round the north of 

 Sunk Island, and entered the Humber on the east of it. 

 This must be taken into account in fixing the date of the 

 next enclosure. Judging from the maps of 1824 (Ordnance 

 Survey) and 1829 (Bryant), in making it, a bank was carried 

 from the apex of Saltagh Sand (the present Stone Creek) to a 

 point on the Island due south of the present church, and a 

 second bank was built from the eastern end of the Island, 

 northwards towards the then Winestead Clough, and thence 

 westwards. (Thus, in Mr. Butterfield's map, in the Naturalist, 

 the bank of 1800 should coincide for some distance on the south 

 with that which existed in 1774). But there is no evidence that 

 it was continued beyond Ottringham Clough on the north. 

 Here it seems to have been met by a cross bank from the old 

 Ottringham Clough, thus obviating the necessity of con- 

 structing a bank on the north-west. This would seem the 

 most economical method of enclosure, and there is no trace 

 of a north-west bank on any map, or on the Island at present. 

 If this was so, the date 1800 is incorrect, since the Keying- 

 ham drain (one of the largest in Holderness) then flowed 

 round the north of Sunk Island, and the Act authorising the 

 reduction of its drainage area and diversion between Cherry 

 Cob Sands and Saltagh into Stone Creek was not obtained 

 until 1802. 



The present church was erected in 1877, on the site of a 

 former building, which Poulson says was built in 1802. As 

 this is on the " 1800" enclosure, an exact date here would 

 assist. 



Mr. Butterfield's statement that this area is 1200 acres 

 seems incorrect, and also that after 1728 the channel round 

 closed up completely ; there is no doubt that at high water 

 Sunk Island was surrounded by water until the completion of 



