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FLAMBOROUGH HEAD

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 469 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLAMBOROUGH

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HEAD  , a promontory on the
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Yorkshire
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coast of
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England, between the
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Filey and
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Bridlington bays of the
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North
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Sea . It is a lofty
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chalk headland, and the resistance it offers to the
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action of the waves may be well judged by contrast with the
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low coast of Holderness to the
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south . The cliffs of the
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Head, however, are pierced with caverns and fringed with rocks of fantastic outline . Remarkable contortion of strata is seen at various points in the chalk . Sea-birds breed abundantly on the cliffs . A lighthouse marks the point, in 540 7' N., o° 5' W .

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