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KILNSEA:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.

"KILNSEA, a parish in the E.R. of Yorkshire."

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"SPURNHEAD, in the parish of Kilnsea, Yorkshire, E.R., the utmost point of Holderness, at the mouth of the Humber, which some call Conny-Hill, had a light-house built on it, anno 1677, by one Mr. Angel of London, who had a patent for it from Charles II. and since 1684, there has been a beacon upon it."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer, 1750]