Flamborough Lighthouse, Cliffs, Caves, Puffin & Sea Bird Colony
Flamborough Lighthouse and Cliffs from a visit back in May 2010. You can also see many other videos on my Youtube Channel at
Flamborough Head is a promontory of 8 miles (13 km) on the Yorkshire coast of England, between the Filey and Bridlington bays of the North Sea. It is a chalk headland, with sheer white cliffs. The cliff top has two standing lighthouse towers, the first dating to 1669 and Flamborough Head Lighthouse built in 1806. The cliffs themselves provide nesting sites for many thousands of seabirds, and are of international sigificance for their geology.
Special Area of Conservation
Flamborough Head has been designated a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) by the British Government's Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC). (Special Areas of Conservation are strictly protected sites designated under the European Community Habitats Directive, which requires the establishment of a European network of important high-quality conservation sites in order to make a significant contribution to conserving the 189 habitat types and 788 species identified in Annexes to this Directive.) Flamborough Outer Headland is an 83 hectares (210 acres) Local Nature Reserve.
Site of Special Scientific Interest
The cliffs af Flanborough Head are designated as an SSSI for both geological and biological significance. First designated in 1952, the SSSI area now extends from Sewerby round the headland to Reighton Sands. The estimated 200,000 nesting seabirds, including one of only two mainland British gannetries,are the most notable biological feature.
Geology
The headland is Britains only northern chalk sea cliff. The coastline within the SSSI has strata from the upper Jurassic through to top of the Cretaceous period, with the headland exhibiting a complete sequence of Chalk Group North Sea Basin strata, dated from 100 to 70 million years ago. The sequence of chalks deposits are known as the Ferriby, Welton, Burnham and Flamborough Chalk.The dramatic white cliffs contrasts with the low coast of Holderness to the south, where the chalk is deeply buried and the glacial boulder clay erodes very readily.The chalk cliffs have a larger number and a wider range of cave habitats at Flamborough than at any other chalk site in Britain, the largest of which are known to extend for more than 50 m from their entrance on the coast. There are also stacks, arches and blowholes. The site is identified as being of international importance in the Geological Conservation Review.
Birds
Seagulls such as Northern Gannets, Kittiwakes and Atlantic Puffins breed abundantly on the cliffs. Bempton Cliffs, on the north side of the headland, has an RSPB reserve and visitor centre. The shooting of seabirds at Flamborough Head was condemned by Professor Alfred Newton in his 1868 speech to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Local MP Christopher Sykes introduced the Sea Birds Preservation Act 1869, the first Act to protect wild birds in the United Kingdom.
Because it projects into the sea, Flamborough Head attracts many migrant birds in autumn, and also has a key point for observing passing seabirds. When the wind is in the east, many birders watch for seabirds from below the lighthouse, or later in the autumn comb the hedges and valleys for landbird migrants. Flamborough Head also has a bird observatory.
Battle of Flamborough Head 1779
A Franco-American squadron fought the Battle of Flamborough Head with a pair of Royal Navy frigates in the American Revolutionary War on 23 September 1779. In the engagement, USS Bonhomme Richard and Pallas, with USS Alliance, captured HMS Serapis and HM hired ship Countess of Scarborough, the best-known incident of Capt. John Paul Jones's naval career. The toposcope at the lighthouse commemorates the 180th anniversary of the battle.
Danes Dyke
Danes Dyke is a 2-mile (3.2 km) long ditch that runs north and south isolating the seaward 5 square miles (13 km2) of the headland. The dyke and the steep cliffs make the enclosed territory and its two boat launching beaches, North and South Landings, easily defended. Despite its name, the dyke is prehistoric in origin, and Bronze Age arrowheads were found when it was excavated by Major-General Augustus Pitt-Rivers in 1879.
Flamborough Head and the village of Flamborough are the setting for the book Bill Takes the Helm by Betty Bowen.[8] In the book an American boy struggles to save his grandmother's house -- in which he, his sister and grandmother are living -- from destruction by the sea. He is also desperately trying to get used to England after the death of his mother, who requested in her will that he be sent there.
Flamborough Head was featured on the television programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of Yorkshire and briefly in the first series of Coast. Flamborough Head was also featured in the finale of series 3 of the ITV drama Scott & Bailey.
Flamborough head & Bempton Cliffs.wmv
Flamborough Head & Bempton Cliffs Gannets, Kitiwakes & Guillemots
New Bird Hide On The Flamborough Coast Given The Green Light
A new bird hide on the Yorkshire Coast could be up and running by this time next year, according to the the Flamborough Bird Observatory.
The group have just had planning permission granted to develop a hide near Flamborough lighthouse which will offer a safe place for bird watchers in bad weather.
And the development will be the end of a long process for the observatory's volunteers, as Mark Blackburn found out.
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Route Through Bempton Cliffs Named Number 50 On Britain's Favourite Walks
Viewers of ITV show
Britain's Favourite Walks last week may have spotted as many as 11 routes in Yorkshire were named in the top 100, with 5 of those being in the north of the county.
But, just a little further down the coast into East Riding, the picturesque route along Bempton Cliffs, which passes through the RSBP nature reserve, was also on the list.
But what is it that makes this particular route so special?
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Bempton Car Park
A revue of the days birding
Bempton Cliffs
Views around Bempton Cliffs, an RSPB reserve in Bempton, near Bridlington, Yorkshire. The music is Nola and Fantasia de Fuego by Muriel Anderson and comes from the site Free Solo Guitar
Canada Geese and Chicks Bempton duck pond Yorkshire England UK
May 2016
Battle of Jutland | Wikipedia audio article
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00:06:08 1 Background and planning
00:06:18 1.1 German planning
00:09:43 1.1.1 Submarine deployments
00:15:10 1.1.2 Zeppelins
00:17:45 1.2 British response
00:21:37 2 Naval tactics in 1916
00:25:19 2.1 Ship design
00:27:45 3 Order of battle
00:32:38 4 Battlecruiser action
00:38:32 4.1 Contact
00:44:34 4.2 Run to the south
00:55:05 4.3 Run to the north
01:00:02 4.4 The fleets converge
01:02:53 5 Fleet action
01:03:02 5.1 Deployment
01:05:31 5.2 Windy Corner
01:10:35 5.3 Crossing the T
01:14:22 5.4 iGefechtskehrtwendung/i
01:19:18 6 Night action and German withdrawal
01:29:50 7 Outcome
01:29:59 7.1 Reporting
01:32:57 7.2 Assessments
01:40:55 7.3 British self-critique
01:42:35 7.3.1 Shell performance
01:46:32 7.3.2 Battlecruiser losses
01:49:55 7.3.3 Ammunition handling
02:00:50 7.3.4 Gunnery
02:04:38 7.3.5 Signalling
02:06:32 7.3.6 Fleet Standing Orders
02:09:44 8 Controversy
02:12:31 8.1 Beatty's actions
02:14:03 9 Death toll
02:14:43 9.1 British
02:15:17 9.2 German
02:15:51 10 Selected honours
02:16:25 10.1 Pour le Mérite
02:16:43 10.2 Victoria Cross
02:17:13 11 Status of the survivors and wrecks
02:20:58 12 Remembrance
02:23:05 13 Film
02:23:22 14 See also
02:23:40 15 Notes
02:23:49 16 Citations
02:23:59 17 Bibliography
02:24:08 18 Further reading
02:24:18 19 External links
02:25:44 19.1 Notable accounts
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The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht, the Battle of Skagerrak) was a naval battle fought between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, during the First World War. The battle unfolded in extensive manoeuvring and three main engagements (the battlecruiser action, the fleet action and the night action), from 31 May to 1 June 1916, off the North Sea coast of Denmark's Jutland Peninsula. It was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. Jutland was the third fleet action between steel battleships, following the long range gunnery duel at the Yellow Sea (1904) and the decisive Battle of Tsushima in 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War. Jutland was the last major battle in world history fought primarily by battleships.Germany's High Seas Fleet intended to lure out, trap, and destroy a portion of the Grand Fleet, as the German naval force was insufficient to openly engage the entire British fleet. This formed part of a larger strategy to break the British blockade of Germany and to allow German naval vessels access to the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Great Britain's Royal Navy pursued a strategy of engaging and destroying the High Seas Fleet, thereby keeping German naval forces contained and away from Britain and her shipping lanes.The Germans planned to use Vice-Admiral Franz Hipper's fast scouting group of five modern battlecruisers to lure Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty's battlecruiser squadrons into the path of the main German fleet. They stationed submarines in advance across the likely routes of the British ships. However, the British learned from signal intercepts that a major fleet operation was likely, so on 30 May Jellicoe sailed with the Grand Fleet to rendezvous with Beatty, passing over the locations of the German submarine picket lines while they were unprepared. The German plan had been delayed, causing further problems for their submarines, which had reached the limit of their endurance at sea.
On the afternoon of 31 May, Beatty encountered Hipper's battlecruiser force long before the Germans had expected. In a running battle, Hipper successfully drew the British vanguard into the path of the High Seas Fleet. By the time Beatty sighted the larger force and turned back towards the British main fleet, he had ...
A Pair of Blue Eyes Audiobook by Thomas Hardy | Audiobook with Subtitles | Part 2
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
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