Picture No 0279

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A lighthouse was first built on the Flamborough Headland in 1669 but was never lit, and remains the only one of its type in the British Isles where a large fire would be lit at the top of the tower. The current lighthouse was built in 1806 and acts as a waypoint for deep sea vessels and coastal traffic as well as marking the Flamborough Headland for vessels heading for the ports of Scarborough and Bridlington. With a range of 24 miles, the Flamborough Head Lighthouse emits 4 white flashes every 15 seconds.
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, and the resistance it offers to coastal erosion may be contrasted with the low coast of Holderness to the south. There are larger numbers 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. Flamborough Head featured in the television programmes Seven Natural Wonders of Yorkshire and in the first series of Coast.
Flamborough Head has been designated a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) by the British Government's Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) to conserve the 189 habitat types and 788 species identified in Annexes to this Directive.)