A photograph of Spurn in May 2005, showing the lighthouse and sand-dunes. Spurn is a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary. It is over 3 miles (5 km) long, almost half of the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards (45 metres) wide in places. The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and is the home to an RNLI lifeboat station and disused lighthouse. It forms part of the civil parish of Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 643 KB)Taken by myself (Alex Reid) on 2005-05-29. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 643 KB)Taken by myself (Alex Reid) on 2005-05-29. ...
A spit is a deposition landform found off coasts. ...
The East Riding of Yorkshire is a local government district with unitary authority status, and a ceremonial county of England. ...
Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified - by Athelstan 927 AD Area - Total 130...
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. ...
River Hull tidal barrier. ...
RNLI Lifeboat at Calshot Spit The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a charity dedicated to saving lives at sea around the coasts of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. ...
A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ...
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. ...
The East Riding of Yorkshire is a local government district with unitary authority status, and a ceremonial county of England. ...
Spurn, owned since 1960 by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and covering 113 hectares (1.13 km²) above high water and 181 hectares (1.81 km²) of foreshore. It is a designated National Nature Reserve, Heritage Coast and is part of the Humber Flats, Marshes and Coast Special Protection Area. The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the traditional county of Yorkshire, England. ...
A hectare (symbol ha) is a unit of area, equal to 10 000 square metres, commonly used for measuring land area. ...
National Nature Reserve is a United Kingdom government conservation designation for a nature reserve of national significance. ...
A Heritage Coast is a strip of coastline designated by the Countryside Agency in England and Wales. ...
A Special Protection Area or SPA is a designation under the European Commission Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds (79/409/EEC). ...
Wildlife The mud flats are an important feeding ground for wading birds, and the area has a bird observatory, for monitoring migrating birds and providing accommodation to visiting birdwatchers. Their migration is assisted by east winds in autumn, resulting in drift migration of Scandinavian migrants, sometimes leading to a spectacular "fall" of thousands of birds. Many uncommon species have been sighted there, including a Cliff Swallow from North America, a Lanceolated Warbler from Siberia and a Black-browed Albatross from the Southern Ocean. More commonly, birds such as Wheatears, Whinchats, Common Redstarts and flycatchers alight at Spurn on their way between breeding and wintering grounds elsewhere. When the wind is in the right direction migrants are funnelled down Spurn Point and are counted at the Narrows Watchpoint, more than 15000 birds can fly past on a good morning in autumn with 3000 quite normal. Families Scolopacidae Rostratulidae Jacanidae Thinocoridae Pedionomidae Burhinidae Chionididae Pluvianellidae Ibidorhynchidae Recurvirostridae Haematopodidae Charadriidae Dunlin (Calidris alpina). ...
A bird observatory is a centre for the study of bird migration and bird populations. ...
Flock of Barnacle Geese during autumn migration Many species of birds undertake seasonal journeys of various lengths, a phenomenon known as Bird migration. ...
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Drift migration is the phenomenon in which migrating birds are blown off course by the winds at the time they are in flight. ...
Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe and includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ...
Binomial name Hirundo pyrrhonota Vieillot, 1817 The Cliff Swallow, Hirundo pyrrhonota (sometimes Petrochelidon pyrrhonota), is a member of the passerine bird family Hirundinidae, the swallows and martins. ...
Binomial name Locustella lanceolata (Temminck, 1840) The Lanceolated Warbler (Locustella lanceolata) is an Old World warbler in the grass warbler genus Locustella. ...
Binomial name Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828) The Black-browed Albatross, Thalassarche melanophris, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae. ...
Binomial name See text Species See text The wheatears, genus Oenanthe, were formerly considered to be members of the thrush family Turdidae. ...
Binomial name Saxicola rubetra (Linnaeus, 1758) The Whinchat, Saxicola rubetra, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. ...
Binomial name Phoenicurus phoenicurus (Linnaeus, 1758) Common Redstart The Redstart or Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family (Turdidae), but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher (Muscicapidae). ...
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 Spurn Point Lighthouse in the distance Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 162 KB) Summary Copyright Keir Gravil 2005 Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Geography The peninsula is made up from sand and shingle eroded from the Holderness coastline washed down the coastline from Flamborough Head. Material is washed down the coast by longshore drift and accumulates to form the long, narrow embankment in the sheltered waters inside the mouth of the Humber estuary. It is maintained by plants, especially Marram grass (Ammophila arenaria). Waves carry material along the peninsula to the tip, continually extending it; as this action stretches the peninsula it also narrows it to the extent that the sea can cut across it in severe weather. When the sea cuts across it permanently, everything beyond the breach is swept away, only to eventually reform as a new spit pointing further south. This cycle of destruction and reconstruction occurs approximately every 250 years. Holderness is an area of England on the coast of Yorkshire. ...
The chalk tower near Flamborough Head. ...
Longshore drift (sometimes known as longshore drift or littoral drift) is a geological process by which sediments such as sand or other materials, move along a beach shore, by the waves // Long Shore Drift is the movement of eroded material, in a zig zag way, along the coast. ...
Species Ammophila arenaria Ammophila breviligulata Marram Grass or Beach Grass is a genus of two species of grass growing almost exclusively on coastal sand dunes, where rhizomes on its extensive root system allow it to survive in a very harsh and windswept ecosystem. ...
The second of the Six Studies in English Folk Song for Cello composed in 1926 by Ralph Vaughan Williams, the Andante sostenuto in E flat "Spurn Point" celebrates this peninsula. A statue of Ralph Vaughan Williams in Dorking. ...
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. ...
History In the Middle Ages, Spurn Head was home to the port of Ravenspurn (aka Ravenspur or Ravensburgh), which was the site of Edward IV's landing on March 14, 1471, when he returned from his six months' exile in the Netherlands. An earlier village, closer to the point of Spurn Head, was Ravenser Odd. Along with many other villages on the Holderness coast, Ravenspurn and Ravenser Odd were lost to the encroachments of the sea, as Spurn Head, due to erosion and deposition of its sand, migrated westward.[1] Ravenspurn was an old Yorkshire town in the United Kingdom which was lost due to coastal erosion. ...
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March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Ravenser Odd, also spelt Ravensrodd, was a port in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, during the medieval period, built on the sandbanks at the mouth of the Humber estuary. ...
Holderness is an area of England on the coast of Yorkshire. ...
The lifeboat station at Spurn Head was built in 1810. Due to the remote location, houses for the lifeboat crew and their families were added a few years later. The station is now the only one in the UK which has full-time paid staff. Severn class lifeboat in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England. ...
In World War I two coastal artillery 9.2 inch batteries were added at either end of Spurn Head, with 4 inch and 4.7 inch quick firing guns in between. The emplacements can be clearly seen, and the northern ones are particularly interesting as coastal erosion has partly toppled them onto the beach, revealing the size of the concrete foundations very well. The Information Centre has a leaflet describing the defences. “The Great War †redirects here. ...
19th century coastal artillery guns preserved in Suomenlinna fortress in Helsinki Coastal artillery is the branch of armed forces concerned with operating mobile anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications. ...
Remains of a battery of English cannon from Youghal, County Cork. ...
As well as a road, the peninsula also used to have a railway, parts of which can still be seen. Unusual 'sail bogies'[[1]] were used as well as more conventional light railway equipment.
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External links - Spurn Head Heritage Coast
- Spurn Point- A cyclic coastal landform, showing an excellent aerial photograph
- http://www.spurnpoint.com/
- Spurn Bird Observatory
Coordinates: 53°34.5′N, 0°07′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
Notes - ^ http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/RAVENSER/index.htm
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