Where Is Spurn Point?

Spurn Point is also known as Spurn Head. It is located in the county of Yorkshire in England. It is the home of a famous lifeboat station belonging to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and is also famous for its lighthouse, which is now defunct. Spurn Point or Spurn Head is the southernmost tip of Spurn.

Spurn is a narrow sand spit. It is located on the coast of the county of Yorkshire in England. It reaches into the North Sea. It forms the northern bank of the moth of the estuary of River Humber. The length covered by Spurn is about five kilometres. It is approximately half the width of the estuary at Spurn Point, and about 45 metres wide in certain places.

Spurn is now owned by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. They took over the responsibility of ownership in the year 1960. Spurn covers an area of about 1.13 square kilometres above high water and a distance of about 1.81 square kilometres of foreshore.

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