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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 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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