Walking Spurn Head to Filey Brigg

The Wolds Way comes to mind when you think about important walking routes in the east Riding of Yorkshire. But, there is a much more important way that doesn’t get dedicated chapter books with plenty of photos. This is the way that thousands of migratory birds of many species using the Atlantic flyway take when passing by Yorkshire: the coast of Holderness and the Flamborough headland. I live close to three fantastic bird observatories: Spurn Bird Observatory, Flamborough Bird Observatory and Filey Bird Observatory are all about an hour drive away, all of them on Yorkshire’s East coast and within Watsonian Vice-county VC61. For 2020 I am planning to walk from Spurn Head to Filey Brigg along the Holderness coast, starting at the beginning of the migration season in March and finishing for the Migration Festival at Filey at the end of October. I have divided the route into 20 stages, the longest 16 km, the shortest 8 km. The route will pass by the three bird observatories that document bird migration. Each walk blog post will feature a summer or winter migrant bird which uses the route and touch upon an interesting historical, geological or natural history issue. Of course I will be Birdtracking along the way!
  1. Spurn Head to Kilnsea. 9th March. 13 km. 38 sp.
  2. Kilnsea to Easington. 16th March. 13 km. 55 sp.
  3. Easington to Holmpton. 23rd March. 16.7 km. 37 sp.
  4. Holmpton to Withernsea. 19th May. 11 km. 40 sp.
  5. Withernsea to Tunstall. 26th May. 11 km. 34 sp.
  6. Tunstall to Garton. 4th June. 13 km. 39 sp.
  7. Garton to Aldbrough. 9th June. 11 km. 41 sp.
  8. Aldbrough to Mappleton. 15th June. 11 km. 52 sp.
  9. Mappleton to Hornsea. 22nd June. 13 km. 48 sp.
  10. Hornsea to Atwick. 3rd July. 10 km. 40 sp.
  11. Atwick to Skipsea. 6th July. 13 km. 38 sp.
  12. Skipsea to Barmston. 13th July. 9 km. 35 sp.
  13. Barmston to Bridlington. 29th July. 12 km. 44 sp.
  14. Bridlington to Sewerby. 5th August. 10 km. 30 sp.
  15. Sewerby to South Landing. 10th August. 9 km. 46 sp.
  16. Flamborough Head. 18th August. 10 km. 36 sp.
  17. North Landing to Bempton. 24th August. 12 km. 31 sp.
  18. Bempton to Speeton. 1st September. 11 km. 32 sp.
  19. Speeton to Filey. 29th September. 12 km. 32 sp.
  20. Filey to Filey Brigg. 5th October. 8 km. 46 sp.
Summary of the whole walk
228 km walked.

Resources
Coastal explorer. Sea defences, rates of erosion, maps of coastal erosion.

Explore the East Riding coast booklet

Rapid coastal assessment Bempton to Donna Nook. Phase 1.

Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: Phase 3. 2013.

The story of East Riding of Yorkshire.

Ostler, Gordon. Coastal Erosion and the Lost Towns of Holderness. Humberside Geologist No. 14.

Sheppard, Thomas. The Lost Towns of the Yorkshire Coast and Other Chapters Bearing Upon the Geography of the District. PublisherCreative Media Partners, LLC. 370 pages

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