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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 See also:

HEAD , a promontory on the See also:Yorkshire See also:coast of See also:England, between the See also:Filey and See also:Bridlington bays of the See also:North See also:Sea. It is a lofty See also:chalk headland, and the resistance it offers to the See also:action of the waves may be well judged by contrast with the See also:low coast of Holderness to the See also:south. The cliffs of the 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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