Flamborough Head
Flamborough Head , chalk promontory, East Riding of Yorkshire, E England, N of Bridlington Bay. There is a lighthouse at the tip. Danes' Dyke (an ancient earthwork fortification) crosses the peninsula. The chalk cliffs are wave-carved into caves and stacks and are inhabited by flocks of seafowl.
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Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK); 9/9/2006; 423 words
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Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK); 12/22/2008; 700+ words
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Team building starts to pay off for East Riding union
Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK); 9/15/2007; 375 words
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'I aim to restore a sense of pride' ; The new East Riding Council chairman has some big ideas for the year ahead.
Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK); 5/12/2008; 251 words
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MP backs campaign to save house ; Campaigners have won an important ally in their bid to turn one of the East Riding's architectural gems into a community building.
Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK); 5/8/2008; 356 words
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Confuse your ridings and you may regret it ; A New book with East Riding in its title caught local historian Martin Craven's attention when he was in a Hull shop.
Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK); 4/7/2008; 523 words
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The place people want to move to ; The East Riding has today been named one of the most popular areas to move to in the country.
Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK); 1/8/2008; 538 words
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Teachers' jobs put at risk by schools funding crisis ; East Riding: Teachers' jobs are under threat because low funding is forcing cash-starved schools into making cuts.
Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK); 3/10/2008; 315 words
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View region's war heroes online ; East Riding: Military heroes who represented the region over the past century are to be remembered.
Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK); 7/5/2008; 188 words
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Flamborough
Book article from: A Dictionary of British Place-Names
Flamborough E. R. Yorks. Flaneburg 1086 ( DB ). ‘Stronghold of a man called Fleinn’. OScand. pers. name + OE burh . Flamborough Head (from OE hēafod ‘headland’) is first recorded in the 14th cent.
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Humberside
Book article from: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
...England. It extended along the North Sea coast from Flamborough Head south across the mouth of the River Humber . The...high rolling plains, rise from white chalk cliffs at Flamborough Head. Prehistoric peoples were followed by Roman settlements...
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Bridlington
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...make it a popular holiday resort. The Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club has its headquarters there. The town administers Flamborough Head and most of the intervening coast line. Bridlington is an ancient market town and port. An Augustinian priory founded...
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Continental Navy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...battle, defeated the British frigate HMS Serapis off Flamborough Head. It was the most celebrated American naval victory...the story was less encouraging. A few weeks before Flamborough Head, a combined expedition of Continental navy and state...
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Wyatt, Samuel
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...constructing prefabricated timber hospitals for use abroad. Other works include lighthouses at Dungeness, Kent (1791), Flamborough Head, Yorks. (1806), and elsewhere many rectories (e.g. at Wrotham, Kent (1801–2), and Lutterworth, Leics. (1803...
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