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STRAIGHT TO THE POINT

There’s nowhere in the British Isles quite like Spurn Point. It has been dubbed ‘Yorkshire’s Land’s End’ but it has none of the rugged cliffs or tourist razzmatazz of that Cornish landmark. Instead, Spurn’s low-lying landscape is a wild, ever-changing panorama of sandy dunes, glistening mudflats and sea buckthorn scrub. It’s a place that’s epitomised by big skies and sweeping vistas.

This spit of land is as narrow as 50 metres in places, but it’s more than three miles long, delicately stretching into the water; a narrow, curving pendulum between the

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