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Encyclopedia > Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire

Easington is a small village situated between the Humber estuary and the North Sea at the south-eastern corner of the East Riding of Yorkshire in Holderness. Humber is also the name of one of the ranges of cars manufactured by the Rootes Group Humber is also the name of a river in Newfoundland, Canada, as well as a river and a college, both in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... The East Riding of Yorkshire is a local government district in the United Kingdom. ... Holderness is an area of England on the coast of Yorkshire. ...


It is the site of a natural gas terminal and is famous for being the birthplace of the British and Canadian poet and literary scholar, Robin Skelton (1925-1997) Natural gas (commonly referred to as gas in many countries, but note that gas is also an American and Canadian shortening of gasoline) is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. ... Robin Skelton (October 12, 1925 –August 22, 1997) was a British-born academic, writer and poet, who lived in Canada from1963. ...


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