Filey Bay is well-known to tourists and to most geologists. In point of scenery it is one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful, bay on the Yorkshire Coast. Its almost unrivalled sands extend for a distance of upwards of four miles, from Carr Naze on the north to the celebrated Speeton Clays on the south. Looking seawards, the eye rests with admiration, on the right, on the magnificent vertical wall of chalk forming the cliffs of Speeton and Buckton, four hundred feet in height, and extending, with diminishing altitude, to the North Landing at Flamborough Head; whilst on the left is seen the remarkable spur, running out to sea for half-a-mile, commonly known to visitors as Filey Brigg, which protects the bay from north-easterly gales. This spur is continued outwards as a submarine ridge for another mile, to a buoy with a bell attached, which does not appear to have been always successful in preventing shipwreck on the Brigg. Rather more than half of the western portion of the ridge of Oolitic rocks is covered with a thick deposit of Boulder Clay, rising to a height of nearly one hundred feet, forming the promontory known as Carr Naze. Originally, no doubt, the Boulder Clay extended much farther seawards and covered a larger portion of the ridge of rock, but the waves and the rain combined have reduced it to its present moderate dimensions. In historic times the Romans are credited with having used Filey Brigg as a ...