Editing Humber (section)

==Fortifications==
The [[Humber Forts]] were built in the mouth of the estuary for the [[First World War]]. Planned in 1914, their construction started in 1915 and they were not completed until 1919.<ref name=ps1>{{cite PastScape|mnumber=915963|mname= Bull Sand Fort|access-date=14 January 2013 }}</ref><ref name=ps2>{{cite PastScape|mnumber=1429147|mname= Haile Sand Fort|access-date=14 January 2013 }}</ref> A coastal battery at Easington, ''Fort Goodwin'' or ''Kilnsea Battery'', faced the Bull Sands Fort.<ref>{{cite PastScape|mnumber=929478|mname= Fort Godwin|access-date=14 January 2013 }}</ref> They were also garrisoned during the Second World War, and were finally abandoned for military use in 1956.

[[Fort Paull]] is further upstream, a Napoleonic-era emplacement replaced in the early 20th century by ''Stallingborough Battery'' opposite [[Sunk Island]].<ref>{{cite PastScape|mnumber=1429224|mname= Stallingborough Battery|access-date=14 January 2013 }}</ref>