Take a drive…in 90 minutes or less you can reach Spurn

http://www.spurnpoint.com

Spurn, just across the Humber from Grimsby, is a remarkable place, jutting out into the estuary and bordered on its eastern side by the North Sea. It is a paradise for bird watchers, anglers and naturalists.

Three and a half miles long and only 50 metres wide in places the promontory is a nature reserve administered by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.

Spurn is one of the most remarkable places in England, remote and desolate yet fascinatingly beautiful, a sand and shingle spit reaching designated a Heritage Coast since 1988 and for as long as anyone can possibly recall under threat from the waters it divides.

Around 65,000 visitors a year make their way along the winding roads of rural Holderness to this remote and unique peninsula, the home of Britain’s only full-time lifeboat crew and their families, whose seven neat and modern homes enjoy some of the finest sea views in England.

Getting there:

From the Humber Bridge take the first exit at the roundabout and at the second roundabout the second exit to join Clive Sullivan Way (signposted Hull).
Continue for about four miles to central Hull and carry straight on over the Myton Bridge which crosses the River Hull and onto Hedon Road. Continue straight ahead following signs to Hedon. After about four miles follow signs to Withernsea and Patrington. Continue through the villages of Thorngumbald, Keyingham and Ottringham to Patrington and then follow signs to Easington and Kilnwick. At Kilnwick follow signs to Spurn.

Distance from Humber Bridge: 38 miles (approx). Estimated driving time 1 hour 20 minutes.