Speeton is a village in the civil parish of Reighton, in North Yorkshire, England.It lies near the edge of the coastal cliffs midway between Filey and Bridlington.[3] Speeton railway station on the Yorkshire Coast Line from Hull to Scarborough served the village until it closed on 5 January 1970.[4] A local geological feature, the Speeton Clay Formation (approximately 130 million years old), was the source of an especially interesting fossil of a hermit crab.[5] The Second World War defences constructed around Speeton have been documented by William Foot.