Filey Brigg

I met up with some friends for a walk around Filey Brigg Country park and then down to the shore front of Filey bay.

Filey Brigg is a long narrow peninsula situated about a mile north of Filey, North Yorkshire. Its steep cliffs are 20 metres high and consist of a variety of material, from pure sandstone to pure limestone. The long neck of rock at the seaward end is called the Brigg.

The existence of the entire structure of Filey Bay and the Brigg is caused by the fact that the rock on the south side of the Brigg slid down, causing the overlying clay to lie either at or below the level of the sea, which eroded it to form Filey Bay. The hard rock on the northern side juts out to form the Brigg. The structure still erodes and large rock slips caused by constant rapid erosion of the clay cliffs of Carr Naze have been witnessed.

The photos below also include some from a walk yesterday along Bempton Cliffs and Thornwick Bay.

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.