Spurn Head — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Spurn Head, a promontory stretching $2\frac{1}{2}$ miles into the mouth of the Humber (q.v.), and forming the south-eastern extremity of Yorkshire. Its presence is indicated by two lighthouses with fixed lights, elevated 93 and 54 feet respectively above the sea, and visible for 15 and 12 miles, and by a light-vessel, whose revolving light is visible for 10 miles. Between 1771, when Smeaton's small lighthouse was built, and 1863 the sea gained 280 yards here, but since the erection of groynes in 1864 the land has gained. See Boyle's Lost Towns of the Humber (1889).