In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Spurn Head like this:
SPURN HEAD, a headland in Kilnsea parish, E. R. Yorkshire; at the Humber's mouth, 8 miles E of Great Grimsby. It was known to the Romans as Ocellum Promontorium, to the Saxons as Spuren Head; it terminates a peninsular tract which has been much wasted by the sea, and which once contained the now extinct town of Ravenspur; and it has two lighthouses, 1,620 feet apart, erected in 1776, and showing fixed lights 100 and 50 feet high, visible at the distance of 15 and 11 miles. Floating lights also are on Stony-Binks shoa1 to the E, and on the Bull shoal to the SW.
Additional information about this locality is available for Kilnsea
Spurn Head through time
Spurn Head is now part of East Riding of Yorkshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Riding of Yorkshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Spurn Head itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Spurn Head, in East Riding of Yorkshire and East Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25645
Date accessed: 16th June 2024
Not where you were looking for?
Click here for more detailed advice on finding places within A Vision of Britain through Time, and maybe some references to other places called "Spurn Head".