Entries for the tag ‘Spurn’
📌 Narrow sand tidal island, previously a spit, off the SE tip of the East Riding on the north bank of the mouth of the Humber, previously home to an RNLI lifeboat station and two disused lighthouses. 
- 3 May 1343: Short of cash for his French wars, Edward III asks what the effect on his rental income will be of January storms and coastal erosion at Ravenser Odd (Holderness)
- 1 October 1399: Henry IV pardons the hermit Matthew Danthorpe, who he found building an unlicensed chapel when he landed at Ravenspurn on his way to dethroning Richard II
- 27 June 1778: Civil engineer John Smeaton reviews the construction for London Trinity House of two lighthouses on Spurn Point, eroding from seawards and growing southwards into the mouth of the Humber
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