“We have featured a number of Yorkshire villages over the last two series and there is something so passionate about them all - the feeling you get from Yorkshire is that they really don’t need the rest of the country, they would happily go it alone and you definitely get that feeling in Flamborough.”
“Flamboorugh’s unique landscape above chalk cliffs has meant they have had to become self-sufficient.”But he says it isn’t just the natural landscape that has made the Flamborough folk so resilient and self-sufficient, man has had a hand in it too.was so special that they would effectively cut it off from the rest of the country by making a five metre deep, two-and-a-half-mile long man-made dyke, re-enforced and fortified with local chalk.
Robinson discovers, when he visits two of the villages most prominent structures, that not only flint, but chalk, has played a large part in the history of Flamborough. Local historian and archaeologist, Andrew Jones, shows him around the village’s most imposing surviving chalk building. Constructed in 1674 and standing 87 feet tall, Flamborough Tower was built with the purpose of improving ship to shore navigation but would ultimately be used by local law enforcers in a bid to prevent smuggling.