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Flamborough

Flamborough is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Flamborough
Flamborough · jcw1967 from Leeds, UK
The place

Flamborough is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 4 miles (6 km) north-east of Bridlington town centre on the prominent coastal feature of Flamborough Head.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Flamborough

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Flamborough Head Lighthouse

    Flamborough Head Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located at Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire. England.

    2.8 km · lighthouse in Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sewerby Hall and Gardens

    Sewerby Hall is a Grade I listed Georgian country house set in 50 acres of landscaped gardens in the village of Sewerby, 2 miles from the seaside town of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The main block was built c. 1714, incorporating some older work, in 3 storeys in brick with a seven window frontage.

    2.7 km · Grade I listed English country house in East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Chalk Tower

    Flamborough Head Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located at Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire. England.

    2.3 km · lighthouse in East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Flamborough Castle

    Flamborough Castle, also known as the Danish Tower, is a Grade II listed Medieval manor house in Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire which has partial ruins existing today.

    100 m · castle in Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Michael

    St Michael's Church is the parish church of Bempton, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The oldest surviving parts of the church are the nave arcades, which were built around 1200.

    3.9 km · church in Bempton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St John the Evangelist

    St John's Church is the parish church of Sewerby, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. Sewerby was long in the parish of Bridlington Priory.

    2.9 km · church in Sewerby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Marton Hall School

    Marton Hall is a historic building on Flamborough Road in Bridlington, a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The house was built in 1672, while the entrance was rebuilt in the late 18th century.

    2.6 km · school building in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Oswald

    St Oswald's Church is the parish church of Flamborough, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The church was built about 1100, from which period the chancel arch and some walling survive.

    300 m · church in Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Flamborough

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 104 km · Newcastle (NCL), 144 km · East Midlands (EMA), 164 km
Stations
Bempton railway station, 3.8 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Flamborough
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £11–14
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Flamborough
    135 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £16–21
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Flamborough
    146 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £16–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Flamborough

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Flamborough. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextTo the north, Scarborough and Filey are agreeable nearby beach resorts, easily done as day trips by bus or train.

From Wikivoyage: Bridlington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    349 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    360 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    389 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    389 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    418 km

If you know how people move in Flamborough – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Flamborough

Flamborough is 43 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bemptonvillage and civil parish in East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Sewerbyvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England United Kingdom3.1 km