Flamborough Head

Flamborough Head, a promontory of the Yorkshire coast, forming the northern horn of Bridlington Bay, 18 miles S.E. of Scarborough (by road 24). It terminates a range of steep chalk cliffs, 300 to 400 feet high. Its rugged sides are pierced with many caverns, and in the sea close by are picturesque chalk rocks, which swarm with sea-birds. On the Head is a lighthouse, 214 feet above sea-level, and 80 feet high, seen 21 miles off. Across the peninsula, ending in the Head, runs a double entrenchment called Danes' Dyke, but really an ancient British earthwork.