SPURN See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

HEAD, or SPURN POINT  , a See also:

• FORELAND, NORTH

foreland of the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

Sea See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, in See also:

• YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire, projecting across the mouth of the See also:

• HUMBER

Humber . Its length is nearly 4 M. from the See also:

• VILLAGE

village of Kilnsea, but its breadth seldom exceeds 300 yds., and it rises only a few feet above sea-level . It is formed of See also:

• SAND
• SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876)

sand and See also:

• SHINGLE

shingle, the debris of the soft coast of Holderness to the north, from which it is estimated that six million tons of material are annually removed by southerly currents along the See also:

• SHORE

shore . Deep See also:

• WATER

water is found See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close off the seaward See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of Spurn See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

Head, the formation of which appears to have taken See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place within historic times, even since about the close of the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . There are two See also:

• LIGHT

light-houses and a lifeboat station on the head .