A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
SPURN HEAD, a headland in Kilnsea parish, E. R. Yorkshire; at the Humber's mouth, 8 miles E of Great Grimsby. It was known to the Romans as Ocellum Promontorium, to the Saxons as Spuren Head; it terminates a peninsular tract which has been much wasted by the sea, and which once contained the now extinct town of Ravenspur; and it has two lighthouses, 1,620 feet apart, erected in 1776, and showing fixed lights 100 and 50 feet high, visible at the distance of 15 and 11 miles. Floating lights also are on Stony-Binks shoa1 to the E, and on the Bull shoal to the SW.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a headland" (ADL Feature Type: "capes") |
| Administrative units: | Kilnsea CP/AP Yorkshire AncC |
| Place names: | OCELLUM PROMONTORIUM | SPUREN HEAD | SPURN HEAD |
| Place: | Spurn Head |
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