The recent winds and floods have got rid of the dunes at Spurn Point, there's barely anything left between the estuary and the sea, how much longer will it last? please log in to view this image
It's been gradually narrowing for years, but recently it's disappeared underwater in really high tides and the end becomes an island. All the lifeboat houses at the end have now been abandoned and the road has now been closed, so you can't even drive to visit(and it's nearly a four mile walk to the end).
It won't disappear, just move as it has done before......... http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/coastalexplorer/pdf/5spurn.pdf PS, don't take a long term mortgage out on anything in Easington!
It's part of it's natural cycle. Every two hundred years or so (IIRC) it gets washed away then deposits start to silt up again slightly further west. I don't how/if this affects the Humber tides.
You can see how much it's shifted, when you look at where the old train used to run... please log in to view this image
yep. We talked about long-shore drift in a-level geography and how it works along the east yorkshire coast. From what I remember part of the problem is that we've tried to keep Spurn in one place rather than letting it take its course eroding and replenishing itself.
I love Spurn Point. I remember when I was 6 we had a school tripped planned and didn't end up going because I had to have my tonsils out. My parents took me the following summer holiday. I found this massive piece of flint and brought it home. Its still in my mams back garden. I really hope it survives for a few more years.
Superb place Spurn Point. It's certainly looking like it's taken a beating in the last few weeks, on top of the damage in the summer too. I'm sure nature will build it back up again but that may take some time. Without easy transport the work on the old lighthouse will probably have to take a backseat for a while. More pictures here (not mine) http://www.spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/sightings/
Useless fact: Did you know the ammo trains (to the gun emplacement on the Point) were sail-powered? please log in to view this image
True, but the groynes at Mappleton, to protect Easington cliffs, have changed to movement/deposition of sand and shingle.
Spent many a jolly weekend down the point. Fell down the old lighthouse once, rushing down as the tide was coming in, twisted my ankle & had to bike 17 odd miles home. Bastard hurt.
My lad'll be chuffed, he's VTS operator, works in the tower at Spurn Point, maybe ABP will get him a company helicopter
I know someone who has a Caravan on the Site at Kilnsea. Sandy Beaches I think it's called, and he said Kilnsea and Spurn really got it bad. His Caravan has been completely written off as it was thrown into a pile at the bottom of the site with some others. Went up there not that long ago for a "Fun Day" that the Site hosted to take the kids for something to do and to catch up with him. We also went to Spurn that day too, really interesting place and a shame we might be seeing a temporary end to it for the foreseeable future. I've spoke with Andrew Gibson of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust down there before and he thinks Spurn Point's unique natural wildlife and positioning is the main reason the businesses down there manage to run (as Kilnsea is a tiny place in all honesty). Massive, massive shame.
When you go to a place like that there's often hardly anybody about and yet nearly everyone in Hull will have been there.
