Flamborough Village and Headland Author:Robert Fisher General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Original Publisher: William Andrews Subjects: Yorkshire (England) Flamborough (England) History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / General Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustratio... more »ns and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE LIGHTHOUSE. FLAMBOROUGH seems so evidently to bear its derivation in its name, "the place of the flame," that we feel inclined to say, as of a good story, if it is not true it ought to be. Nine cyclopaedias out of ten would give you this derivation right off as though there was no doubt about it. I doubt it for the following reasons : -- 1. In Domesday Book the name is written Flaneburg. 2. " Flane " is the Norse for arrow or sword, to which the head, known long before the village existed, bears a striking resemblance. 3. There is no proof of any flame, beyond that of beacon fires, existing there before a century back. The beacon fires were lighted at various places round the coast, so Flamborough would deserve no distinguishing name on that score. But surely there is an ancient tower which seems made for the purpose of a lighthouse ! That proves the danger of jumping to a conclusion. That the tower was used as a look-out is tolerably certain, but that any light was shown from it is unsupported by any book, remains of a lantern, or even local tradition. The beacon fire was lighted on the Beacon Hill a little to the south of the Church, and by its blaze passed its news on to the Bainton Beacon. But not only is the existence of the tower as a lighthouse unsupported by evidence on thecustom of the time, it is contradicted by the evidence we have. The present lighthouse was erected owing to the representations of Mr...« less