View of coastline and North Sea from lighthouse at Spurn Point (or Spurn Head) East Yorkshire, UK.

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Spurn Point (or Spurn Head as it is also known) is a narrow sand spit on 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 is over 3 miles ( km) long, almost half the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards (46 m) wide in places. The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and is the home to an RNLI lifeboat station, the only full-time coastguard station in the UK and a disused lighthouse. It forms part of the civil parish of Easington. Spurn Head covers 280 acres (113 ha) above high water and 450 acres (181 ha) of foreshore. It has been owned since 1960 by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and is a designated National Nature Reserve, Heritage Coast and is part of the Humber Flats, Marshes and Coast Special Protection Area.

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Location: Spurn Point, East Yorkshire, UK
Photo credit: © Peter Conner / Alamy / Afripics
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