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Flamborough Head

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

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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Flamborough

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

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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Flamborough

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Flamborough, Canada, UK UK (England): formerly Flaneburg ‘Fleinn's Stronghold’ from an Old Scandinavian personal name and the Old English burh.

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