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Travelling To Flamborough
By Road Travelling To Flamborough by road can be done via two roads, the B1229 and the B1255. From the South, you can access the B1255, which starts just outside Bridlington on the A165. From the North, you can use the B1229, which starts just off the A615 from Scarborough. Speeton & Bempton are the [...]
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Flamborough Danes Dyke Beach, near Bridlington
Flamborough Head juts out miles into the North Sea and has in the past been effectively cut off by the construction of Danes Dyke, which encloses five square miles of the peninsula. The end of the Dyke is a deep ravine on the south side of the Headland, where it exits into Bridlington Bay. Located [...]
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Flamborough South Landing, near Bridlington
Flamborough South Landing faces south from Flamborough Head across the Bridlington Bay area on the Yorkshire Coast. This is the site of the new Lifeboat station, which moved from the North Landing, and is perhaps not as spectacular as North Landing, but with a better beach, which is wonderful for picnics. In addition to the [...]
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Flamborough North Landing, near Bridlington
Flamborough North Landing is a sheltered bay on the Flamborough headland on the North Yorkshire Coast. It is the site of the old Lifeboat Station, as the lifeboat has now moved to South Landing. North Landing is still famous for its smugglers' caves and panoramic views north along the coast to Filey and Scarborough. Once [...]
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Danes Dyke
Jutting out miles into the North Sea, the headland has in the past been effectively cut off by the construction, in the Iron Age, of the erroneously named Danes Dyke, which encloses five square miles of the peninsula. The end of the Dyke is a deep ravine on the south side of the Headland, where [...]
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Flamborough General History
Flamborough's rich history goes back thousands of years, far beyond written records, but there is evidence that invaders or settlers crossed from mainland Europe over the centuries and left their mark here. A race known as the Beaker People came in the Bronze Age from about 2,000 BC because pieces of their distinctive pottery [...]
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Flamborough Lighthouse
Flamborough Lighthouse Flamborough headland has always been a dangerous place for shipping. There are many chalk reefs and outcrops obscured by the crashing waves. The sea is also notorious for its strong tidal currents that are funneled past the head. The earliest recorded vessel to be wrecked off the headland was the La Katerine in [...]
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