Flamborough, E Yorkshire - Headlands Thornwick Bay - Peacock postcard c.1903

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• Picture / Image:  Flamborough, East Yorkshire - Headlands at Thornwick Bay
• Publisher:  Peacock (4362B)
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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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 significance for their geology.

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.^[1]

The cliffs at Flamborough 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.^[2] The estimated 200,000 nesting seabirds, including one of only two mainland British gannetries,^[3] are the most notable biological feature.^[4]

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.^[4] 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.^[5] 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.^[4]

Seagulls such as Northern Gannets, Kittiwakes and Atlantic Puffins breed abundantly on the cliffs.^[4] Bempton Cliffs, on the north side of the headland, has an RSPB reserve and visitor centre.^[6] 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.^[7]

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.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=yorkshire

number of items=single

period=pre - 1914

postage condition=unposted