Spurn keeps changing shape and we learnt about it in Geography lessons. Material is washed down the coast by a process called longshore drift and accumulates to form the long, narrow embankment making Spurn, which is essentially a sand tidal island. The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and is the home to an RNLI lifeboat station and two disused lighthouses. East Yorkshire once expanded further into the North Sea, but over the centuries the land and over 30 villages have been lost to the waves (see map in post "The road that disappeared"). For example, Ravenser Odd village was built upon a sandbank at the mouth of the estuary, close to the Spurn Point, but is now covered by the waves of the North Sea. Ravenser Odd is believed to have been founded in the mid-1200s, it’s unusual name stems from the Norse Hrafn’s Eyr, or raven’s tongue. Spurn is a wild place and I will revisit.