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Spurn
Sign in to saveSpurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuary. It was a spit with a semi-permanent connection to the mainland, but a storm in 2013 made the road down to the end of Spurn impassable to vehicles at high tide.
Key facts
- UK legislation.long_title
- An Act to explain and amend an Act, paired in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for taking down and removing certain Lighthouses now standing near the Spurn Point, at the Mouth of the Humber; and for erecting other fit and convenient Lighthouses instead thereof."
- UK legislation.year
- 1772
- UK legislation.citation
- 12 Geo. 3. c. 29
- UK legislation.territorial_extent
- Great Britain
- UK legislation.royal_assent
- 21 May 1772
- UK legislation.commencement
- 21 January 1772
- UK legislation.repeal_date
- 6 August 1861
- UK legislation.repealing_legislation
- Statute Law Revision Act 1861
- UK legislation.related_legislation
- Spurn Point Lighthouse Act 1766
- UK legislation.status
- Repealed
- UK legislation.original_text
- https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D78uAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA71
- UK legislation.collapsed
- yes
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.official_name
- Spurn
- UK place.population
- 50
- UK place.population_ref
- (approx)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Easington
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Ecology
- Lighthouses
- Old High and Low Lights
- Lighting arrangements
- Decommissioning of the High and Low Lights
- The new Spurn Lighthouse
- Gallery
- Spurn Point
- Spurn Lighthouses
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuary. It was a spit with a semi-permanent connection to the mainland, but a storm in 2013 made the road down to the end of Spurn impassable to vehicles at high tide.
The island is over long, almost half the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as wide in places. The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and was, until early 2023, the home to an RNLI lifeboat station and two disused lighthouses. It forms part of the civil parish of Easington.