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 Humber is a large tidal estuary in northern England. It starts at Trent Falls at the confluence of the River Ouse and the River Trent; it then passes the junction with the Market Weighton Canal on the north shore, the junction with the River Ancholme on the south shore; past North Ferriby and South Ferriby, under the Humber Bridge and past Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Kingston upon Hull on the North bank, where the River Hull joins, then into the North Sea between Cleethorpes and Spurn Head.
In the Anglo-Saxon period, it was a major boundary, separating Northumbria from the southern kingdoms. Indeed the name Northumbria simply indicates the area North of the Humber. It currently forms the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire, and North and North East Lincolnshire between Faxfleet and Spurn Head. From 1974 to 1996 the East Riding, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire were part of Humberside.
Two fortifications were built in the mouth of the river in 1914, the Humber Forts. Fort Paull is further upstream.
, an estuary on the east coast of England formed by the rivers Trent and Ouse, the northern shore belonging to Yorkshire and the southern to Lincoinshire.
Except where the Humber cuts through a low chalk ridge, between north and south Ferriby, dividing it into the Wolds of Yorkshire and of Lincolnshire, the shores and adjacent lands are nearly flat.
The course is carefully buoyed and lighted, for the Humber is an important highway of commerce, having on the Yorkshire bank the great port of Hull, and on the Lincolnshire bank that of Grimsby, while Goole lies on the Ouse a little above the junction with the Trent.
Spurn Head, with a lighthouse, is at the mouth of the Humber.
In early English history the Humber was significant as a means of ingress.
The Humber Bridge (4,580 ft/1,396 m), linking Hull with the estuary’s southern shore, was opened in July, 1981, and is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world.
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