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Spurn Head

Spurn Head
Spurn point with lighthouse.kirin.jpeg
Spurn in May 2005, showing the lighthouse and sand-dunes.
Spurn Head is located in East Riding of Yorkshire
Spurn Head
Spurn Head
Spurn Head shown within the East Riding of Yorkshire
Population 50 (approx)
OS grid reference TA399108
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HULL
Postcode district HU12
Dialling code 01964
Police Humberside
Fire Humberside
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
YorkshireCoordinates: 53°34′33″N 0°06′41″E / 53.575955°N 0.111454°E / 53.575955; 0.111454
Spurn Point High
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Spurn Point High Lighthouse
Spurn is located in East Riding of Yorkshire
Spurn
East Riding of Yorkshire
Location Spurn Point
East Riding of Yorkshire
England
Coordinates 53°34′44″N 0°07′06″E / 53.578996°N 0.118325°E / 53.578996; 0.118325
Year first constructed 1895
Automated 1957
Deactivated 1985
Construction brick tower
Tower shape cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern
Markings / pattern white and black bands tower, white lantern
Height 39 metres (128 ft)
Range 17 nautical miles (31 km)
Characteristic Fl W 15s.
Oc RW (sector lights)
Admiralty number A2424
ARLHS number ENG-138
Managing agent Spurn Point National Nature Reserve

Spurn (or Spurn Head Spit as it is also known) 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 (4.8 km) long, almost half the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards (46 m) wide in places. The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and is the home to an RNLI lifeboat station and two disused lighthouses. It forms part of the civil parish of Easington.

Spurn Head covers 280 acres (113 ha) above high water and 450 acres (181 ha) of foreshore. It has been owned since 1960 by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and is a designated national nature reserve, heritage coast and is part of the Humber Flats, Marshes and Coast Special Protection Area.

In the Middle Ages, Spurn Head was home to the port of Ravenspurn (a.k.a. Ravenspur or Ravensburgh), where Henry of Bolingbroke landed in 1399 on his return to dethrone Richard II. It was also where Sir Martin De La See led the local resistance against Edward IV's landing on 14 March 1471, as he was returning 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.


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