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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Bull Sand	Yorkshire	Humber, near Spurn Head, East-Riding Yorkshire; near SE. side is a light-vessel, with fixed-light seen 8 miles.	Bartholomew
  BULL-SAND	Yorkshire	Spurn head, E. R. Yorkshire. A light-ship is on it, in 4½ fathoms, showing a fixed light, visible	Imperial
  EASINGTON	Yorkshire	Spurn-Head peninsula, 6 miles SE of Patrington town and r. station; and has a post office under Hull. Acres	Imperial
  GRIMSBY (Great)	Lincolnshire	Spurn head, abint 7 miles from the sea, 14 NNW of Linth, and 20 SE of Hull; and has railway	Imperial
  HAWKE (THE)	Yorkshire	ground in the Humber; inside Spurn Head, off Kilnsea, E. R. Yorkshire. It has from 5 to 6 fathoms water.	Imperial
  Hawk Road	Yorkshire	Hawk Road , channel, in the Humber, East-Riding Yorkshire, within Spurn Head.	Bartholomew
  HULL, or KINGSTON-UPON-HULL	Yorkshire	Spurn Head at the Humber's mouth, 38 by road, but 41¼ by railway, ESE of York, and 171 by road	Imperial
  Humber	Lincolnshire	narrowed to 5 miles by Spurn Head promontory, the SE. extremity of Yorkshire; lights are at Spurn, Bull Sand, Grimsby, and Killingholm.	Bartholomew
  HUMBER (THE)	Lincolnshire	Head, in the same south-easterly direction as from Paull, with a width, as measured from different headlands on the S side of 5½ and 7½ miles. Its length, from the head to Paull, is 18½ miles; and from Paull to Spurn	Imperial
  Killiecrankie, Pass of	Perthshire	head of the Pass, near Killiecrankie station, on a diluvial plain of small extent, but level as a Dutch polder, was fought the celebrated battle of Killiecrankie, 27 July 1689. General Mackay, the leader of King William's forces, marched through the Pass on the morning of that day, at the head of 3000 infantry and nearly 1000 horse, and drew them up upon this level haugh. Early the same morning, Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, had arrived at Blair Castle (the object of contention), with one little troop of cavalry and 2500 foot, including '300 new-raised, naked, undisciplined	Groome
  KILNSEA	Yorkshire	Spurn Head, with its lighthouses, forms the SE extremity. Large portions of the land have been swept away by the sea; and even	Imperial
  NORTH SEA, or German Ocean		Spurn Headlight on its N side; Flamborough-Head, with its light; Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby scars or cliffs, with alight	Imperial
  Ravenspur	Yorkshire	Spurn Head; was also called Ravenspurn, Ravenser, and Ravensrode; returned a member to the Parliaments of Edward I.; suffered much	Bartholomew
  RAVENSPUR, Ravenser, or Ravensrode	Yorkshire	Spurn Head. It sent members to parliament in the time of Edward I.; suffered so much injury from the sea in 1346, that	Imperial
  Spurn Head	Yorkshire	Spurn Head , headland, Kilnsea par., East-Riding Yorkshire, at the mouth of the Humber, 8 miles E. of Grimsby; P.O., T.O.; on point	Bartholomew
  SPURN HEAD	Yorkshire	SPURN HEAD , a headland in Kilnsea parish, E. R. Yorkshire; at the Humber's mouth, 8 miles E of Great	Imperial
  Yorkshire	Yorkshire	Head the coast is bold and rocky; from Flamborough Head to Spurn Head it lies low. The interior presents the appearance	Bartholomew

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