The chalk tower near Flamborough Head. Built in 1674, this is the oldest surviving complete lighthouse in England

Flamborough lighthouse

Flamborough Head is a seven mile (≈11.3 km) long promontory on the Yorkshire coast of England, between the Filey and Bridlington bays of the North Sea. It is a chalk headland, and the resistance it offers to coastal erosion may be contrasted with the low coast of Holderness to the south. There are larger numbers and a wider range of cave habitats at Flamborough than at any other chalk site in Britain, the largest of which are known to extend for more than 50 m from their entrance on the coast. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 306 KB) The octagonal chalk tower at grid reference TA250708 on Flamborough Head, North Yorkshire. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 306 KB) The octagonal chalk tower at grid reference TA250708 on Flamborough Head, North Yorkshire. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1704 × 2272 pixel, file size: 628 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Flamborough Lighthouse, East Riding of Yorkshire Photo taken by me on 30 December 2006 I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby grant the permission... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1704 × 2272 pixel, file size: 628 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Flamborough Lighthouse, East Riding of Yorkshire Photo taken by me on 30 December 2006 I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby grant the permission... “Miles” redirects here. ... The term promontory has several similar meanings in English, including geographical names: A promontory is a prominent mass of land which overlooks lower lying land or a body of water (e. ... Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Coast (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Statistics Population: 6560 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TA115807 Administration Borough: Scarborough Shire county: North Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: North Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (East Riding) Services Police force: North Yorkshire Police Fire and rescue: North Yorkshire Ambulance... Bridlington beach, from the North Pier Bridlington is a town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. ... 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 Needles,situated on the Isle Of Wight, are part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation. ... The bay at San Sebastián, Spain A headland is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides. ... Many stretches of the coastline of East Anglia, England, are prone to high rates of erosion, as illustrated by this collapsed section of the cliffs at Hunstanton, Norfolk. ... Holderness is an area of England on the coast of Yorkshire. ...

Flamborough Head has been designated a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) by the British Government's Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC). (Special Areas of Conservation are strictly protected sites designated under the European Community Habitats Directive, which requires the establishment of a European network of important high-quality conservation sites in order to make a significant contribution to conserving the 189 habitat types and 788 species identified in Annexes to this Directive).

Seabirds such as gannets and puffins breed abundantly on the cliffs, and nearby Bempton Cliffs has a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds reserve. Because it projects into the sea, Flamborough attracts many bird migrants in autumn, and also has a key point for observing passing seabirds. When the winds are in the east, many birders watch for seabirds from below the lighthouse, or later in the autumn comb the hedges and valleys for landbird migrants. Flamborough Head also has a bird observatory. The Sooty Tern is highly aerial and marine and will spend years flying at sea without returning to land. ... Binomial name Morus bassanus Linnaeus, 1758 Northern Gannet range The Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus, formerly Sula bassana) is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. ... Binomial name (Linnaeus, 1758) The Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) is a seabird in the auk family. ... Sexual reproduction is a union that results in increasing genetic diversity of the offspring. ... Bempton Cliffs RSPB Bempton Cliffs is a nature reserve, run by the RSPB, at Bempton in Yorkshire, England. ... The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is Europes largest wildlife conservation charity. ... For other uses, see Bird (disambiguation). ... Flock of Barnacle Geese during autumn migration Bird migration refers to the regular seasonal journeys of varying distances undertaken by many species of birds. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST, internally called HT-7U) is a project being undertaken to construct an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, in eastern China. ... Birding or birdwatching is a hobby concerned with the observation and study of birds (the study proper is termed American origin; birdwatching is (or more correctly, was) the commonly-used word in Great Britain and Ireland and by non-birders in the United States. ... A HDR image of a traditional lighthouse For other uses, see Lighthouse (disambiguation). ... A clipped beech hedge in Germany, allowed to grow as high as a house in order to serve as a windbreak A hedge is a line of closely spaced shrubs and bushes, planted and trained in such a way as to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of... Fljótsdalur in East Iceland, a rather flat valley In geology, a valley is a depression with predominant extent in one direction. ... A bird observatory is a centre for the study of bird migration and bird populations. ...

A Franco-American squadron fought an engagement here with a pair of Royal Navy frigates in the American Revolutionary War in 1779. In the engagement, USS Bonhomme Richard and Pallas captured HMS Serapis and Countess of Scarborough, catapulting Capt. John Paul Jones' naval career. The toposcope at the lighthouse commemorates the 180th anniversary of the battle. This article is about the navy of the United Kingdom. ... This article is about military actions only. ... 1779 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The first USS Bonhomme Richard, formerly Duc de Durae, was a east indiaman, a merchant ship built in France for the French East India Company in 1765, for service between France and the Orient. ... 169. ... John Paul Jones (July 6, 1747–July 18, 1792) was Americas first well-known naval hero in the American Revolutionary War. ... A toposcope is a monument erected on hills or high places which indicates the direction, and usually the distance, to notable features which can be seen from that point. ...

Danes Dyke is a 2 mile / 3 km long ditch that runs north and south isolating the seaward 5 square miles / 13 square kilometres of the headland. The dyke and the steep cliffs make the enclosed territory and its two boat launching beaches, North and South Landings, easily defended. Despite its name, Bronze Age arrowheads found on the site suggest an earlier history. The chalk tower near Flamborough Head. ... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ... American Indian arrowheads of several shapes and functions Japanese arrowheads of several shapes and functions Arrowhead can refer to: the point of an arrow; some plants in the genus Sagittaria; the Arrowhead region of northeastern Minnesota; a place name in southern California, derived from an arrowhead-shaped geologic formation in...

It was featured on the television programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of Yorkshire. Seven Natural Wonders is a television programme that aired on BBC Two from 3 May to 20 June 2005. ...

Flamborough Head and the village of Flamborough were also the setting for the book "Bill Takes the Helm" (Betty Bowen, published 1955 by Burke Publishing Company, London, England). Summarised this is about an American boy's fight to save his grandmother's house from destruction by the sea, which he, his grandmother and his sister are living in. He is also desperately trying to get used to England after his mother died and she requested he be sent there in her will. For Flamborough, Ontario, Canada, see Flamborough, Ontario. ...

During the evening of 23 August 2006, a lightning bolt hit a buttress on the cliffs, sending 100 tonnes of rock into the sea.^[1] is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For information on lightning precautions, see Lightning safety. ...

References

1. ^ Lightning strike damages cliffs

External links

• Map sources for Flamborough Head
• Flamborough bird observatory
• Danes Dyke
• Dutch symphonic rockgroup called Flamborough Head

Coordinates: 54.11599° N 0.08305° W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...