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Flamborough is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north-east of Bridlington town centre on the prominent coastal feature of Flamborough Head.

The most prominent man-made feature of the area is Flamborough Head Lighthouse. The headland extends into the North Sea by approximately . To the north, the chalk cliffs stand at up to high. For information about its founding, see Thorgils Skarthi.

According to the 2011 UK Census, Flamborough parish had a population of 2,161, an increase on the 2001 UK Census figure of 2,121.

The church of St Oswald stands in the village and was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1966 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England. The village centre contains a number of shops and public houses. The Old Dog and Duck is at Dog and Duck Square.

In the village are the fragmentary remains of Flamborough Castle, a medieval fortified manor house.

In 1823 the village was a parish in the Wapentake of Dickering. Flamborough was recorded as "merely a fishing village" with a "very ancient station, formerly of some note". The population at the time was 917, half of which constituted the families of fishermen. Occupations included eleven farmers, two blacksmiths, two butchers, two grocers, seven carpenters, four shoemakers, three tailors, a stone mason & flour dealer, a bacon & flour dealer, a weaver, a corn miller, a straw hat manufacturer, and the landlords of the Sloop, the Board and the Dog and Duck public houses. Also listed was a schoolmaster and a gentlewoman. Four carriers operated in the village, destinations being Hull and York twice a week, and Bridlington, daily. With St Oswald's Church was a Methodist and a Primitive Methodist chapel.

According to local legend, the village is haunted by the ghost of a suicide known as Jenny Gallows.

Flamborough, with its holiday camps and a caravan park, is a holiday destination during the summer months.

Flamborough (disambiguation)

Flamborough may refer to:

  • Flamborough, East Riding, Yorkshire, England, UK
  • Flamborough, Ontario, Canada
  • HMS Flamborough, a British Royal Navy ship name
  • Empire Flamborough, the Empire ship Flamborough
  • Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, a Canadian federal electoral district in Ontario
  • Flamborough—Glanbrook, a planned Canadian federal electoral district in Ontario
  • Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot, a former Canadian federal electoral district in Ontario
  • Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale (provincial electoral district), a Canadian provincial electoral district of Ontario
  • Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot (provincial electoral district), a former Canadian provincial electoral district of Ontario
  • Flamborough railway station, a former rail station in Marton, Yorkshire, England, UK

Usage examples of "flamborough".

York University, held various tutorships from time to time in various seats of learning, applied for the Chair of Modern History at York, and there came up against the formidable memory and detective ability of your Miss de Vine, who was then Head of Flamborough College and on the examining body.

Bay, and Flamborough Head,-and gave them numerous other rewards for their strenuous endeavors.

It was with a surge of elation that I became aware one night of a headland to the northwest, and thought I recognized the towering cliffs of Flamborough Head from drawings and descriptions that I had pored over in my distant study.

When I was at Flamborough College, examining for the professorial these in York University there was a man who sent in a very interesting paper on a historical subject.

On Tuesday morning the Rosa was loitering at an otherwise undefined spot in the North Sea fifty miles east of Flamborough Head when a thirty-foot cabin cruiser out of the English port of Great Yarmouth approached.

The German E-boat had been moored to a navigation buoy, some miles east of Flamborough Head.

Farmer Flamborough, our talkative neighbor, and often a blind piper, would pay us a visit and taste our gooseberry wine, for the making of which we had lost neither the recipe nor the reputation.

On September 23, Jones encountered, off Flamborough Head, a fleet of forty British merchantmen, under convoy of the Serapis, Captain Pearson, of forty-four guns, and the Countess of Scarborough, a ship of twenty guns.

When I was at Flamborough College, examining for the professorial theses in York University there was a man who sent in a very interesting paper on a historical subject.

Together, amid the wool and hides, they hid from the English pirates, the hated Sassenach who attacked off Flamborough Head.

With his experience of seagoing no more than a trip or two to Flamborough lighthouse on his holidays at Bridlington, he had felt himself thoroughly a sailor following in the island tradition of Great Britain.

The poor Miss Flamboroughs, their former gay companions, were cast off as mean acquaintance, and the whole conversation ran upon high life and high-lived company, with pictures, taste, and Shakespeare.

By the time we land at Punta Arenas, they'll have memorized the Lady Flamborough well enough to run around her decks blindfolded.

You can wreck a ship on sand or on chesil as easily as you can on Flamborough Head.

In December of 1977, I read in one of the books written by Peter Throckmorton, dean of American marine archaeology, that a gentleman in England, Sidney Wignall, was following up leads to John Paul Jones's famous Revolutionary War ship, the Bonhomme Richard, which sank after an epic battle off Flamborough Head in the North Sea.