The landscape of Kilnwick owes much to its history as an Estate , having been described , at the time of its sale in 1951 , as ' one of the finest shoots in Yorkshire ' . The 1951 sales brochure drew attention particularly to the ‘ bag ’ of game that had been got over the six years since the end of the Second World War . Because of its history , it is exceptionally well endowed with woodland , which stems from the use of coverts for rearing game birds . Within a mile of the village centre , there are six sizeable linear plantations : Wedding Wood , West Belt , High Wood , East Belt , Low Wood and Stonybroke , each of which serve to give the impression of a well-wooded landscape . Given its low-lying position , and its diminutive church tower , Kilnwick is not easy to spot until a visitor is within the ring of woodland that surrounds it , and the density of trees is in stark contrast to the oft-treeless arable land of the Wolds to the north and west and Holderness to the east . Unlike Lockington , which lies directly alongside its beck ( much to its cost in the floods of July 2007 ) , Kilnwick sits on a low river terrace and so avoids overbank floods that emanate from its own highly regulated beck . Despite this , the suffix ‘ wick ’ probably denotes the Anglo-Saxon for ‘ village ’ rather than its other meaning ‘ marsh ’
floods of July 2007
2007 United Kingdom floods
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