Walk around Flamborough Head

Flamborough Head is a chalk headland, with sheer white cliffs. The cliff top has two standing lighthouse towers, the oldest dating from 1669 and Flamborough Head Lighthouse built in 1806.

The headland is the only chalk sea cliff in the north. The coastline is within an SSSI and has strata from the upper Jurassic through to top of the Cretaceous period, and the headland exhibits a complete sequence of Chalk Group North Sea Basin strata, dated from 100 to 70 million years ago.

My walk started at North Landing and I headed south around the headland, past South Landing to Dykes end where the Danes Dyke meets the coast.

Bempton Cliffs, East Riding of Yorkshire

The hard chalk cliffs at Bempton rise are relatively resistant to erosion and offer many sheltered headlands and crevices for nesting birds. The cliffs run about 6 miles (10 km) from Flamborough Head north towards Filey and are over 330 feet (100 m) high at points.

A section of the cliffs is managed by the RSPB as a nature reserve and is known for its breeding seabirds, including northern gannet, Atlantic puffin, razorbill, common guillemot, black-legged kittiwake and fulmar.

I walked from North Landings on Flamborough Head to the RSPB nature reserve, returning the same way back again.