Spurn Head (or Point) stretches across which estuary?
Spurn Point Military Railway Spurn Point Military Railway The Spurn Point Military Railway was a railway line in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It extended for , connecting Kilnsea with Spurn Point in the Humber Estuary. The line was built to supply military installations along this stretch of coast. Spurn Point is a narrow spit of land which protrudes south and south-westwards from the eastern edge of Yorkshire into the Humber Estuary. It is shifting and unstable, being mostly composed of sand and shingle. Spurn Point had been militarised in 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars. When the First World War was declared, the
Spurn extending it; as this action stretches the peninsula it also narrows it to the extent that the sea can cut across it in severe weather. When the sea cuts across it permanently, everything beyond the breach is swept away, only to eventually reform as a new spit pointing further south. This cycle of destruction and reconstruction occurs approximately every 250 years. More recently, Dr. John Pethick of Hull University put forward a different theory to explain the formation of Spurn Head. He suggests that the spit head has been a permanent feature since the end of the last ice age,