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    Beachy Head is a chalk headland in East Sussex, England. It is situated close to Eastbourne, immediately east of the Seven Sisters. Beachy Head is located...
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    Beachy Head is a long blank verse poem by the English Romantic poet and novelist Charlotte Turner Smith, published in 1807, the year after her death,...
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    Beachy Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in the English Channel below the cliffs of Beachy Head in East Sussex. It is 33 m (108 ft) in height and...
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  • The Beachy Head Lady or Beachy Head Woman is an ancient skeleton discovered in Beachy Head, East Sussex, England. The Beachy Head Lady lived during the...
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  • Three naval battles were fought off the promontory of Beachy Head on the Sussex coast of England. The third day of fighting in the Battle of Portland...
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  • Beachy Head is a chalk headland in East Sussex, England. It may also refer to: Battle of Beachy Head (disambiguation) RAF Beachy Head, a former Royal...
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  • "Beachy Head" is a song by British indie pop band Veronica Falls. The song was first released in the UK by independent record label No Pain in Pop on...
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    The Beachy Head-class repair ships were a class of 21 depot, maintenance and repair ships constructed for the Royal Navy during the Second World War....
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  • jets and head of South African aircraft maintenance company Hangar 51, bought the remains of the Thunder City collection from Mike Beachy Head's estate...
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  • Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone are two spatially separate areas in the English Channel, off the East Sussex coast. They stretch from Brighton...
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  • RAF Beachy Head is a former Royal Air Force radar station and one of the many Chain Home Low radar stations, being situated near Beachy Head and Eastbourne...
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    The Battle of Beachy Head, also known as the Battle of Bévéziers, was a fleet action fought on 10 July 1690 during the Nine Years' War. The battle was...
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    government district with borough status. Eastbourne is immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the larger...
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    mouth of the River Cuckmere near Seaford, and the chalk headland of Beachy Head outside of Eastbourne. The dips or swales that separate each of the seven...
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    sent in reconnaissance located the English anchored at Beachy Head. The Battle of Beachy Head (known in French as "Bataille de Béveziers") began in the...
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    Seaford to Beachy Head is a 1,108.7-hectare (2,740-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches from Seaford to...
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    Toute) is a decommissioned lighthouse and British landmark located at Beachy Head, East Sussex, close to the town of Eastbourne. It has been called "Britain's...
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    1949, but the remainder continued in regular use until 1956. No. 32424 "Beachy Head" was the last survivor, it was withdrawn in April 1958 and none were...
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  • Headland (redirect from Head (geography))
    Mirissa, Sri Lanka Indira Point, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India Beachy Head, England Cabo da Roca, Portugal, the western tip of mainland Europe Cap...
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    until 1989 that her remains were discovered in thick undergrowth on Beachy Head, where she would regularly take walks. The inquest into her death was...
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    built by the Harland and Wolff yard. Of the six ships, MV Longstone and Beachy Head were on charter to the civilian company Transfennica operating a RoRo...
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    characteristic white chalk cliffs form, such as the White Cliffs of Dover and Beachy Head. Chalk deposits are generally very permeable, so the height of the water...
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    counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the Eastbourne Downland Estate, East Sussex, in the east. The Downs...
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    It was bought by the public, following threats to the beauty spots of Beachy Head and the surrounding farmland, which led to a public campaign and Act...
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    later criticize slavery in works such as The Old Manor House (1793) and Beachy Head (1807). She persuaded Richard to set Benjamin up as a gentleman farmer...
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  • condition were being published. Scarboro was found at the bottom of Beachy Head on 27 April 1988. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Tatsfield, Surrey...
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  • The Beachy Amish Mennonites, also known as the Beachy Amish or Beachy Mennonites, are a Conservative Anabaptist tradition of Christianity. Commonalities...
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  • at the Grand Brighton Hotel. Jimmy steals Ace's Vespa scooter and heads to Beachy Head, riding close to the cliff-edge. For a time, he appears to be having...
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    valleys cut into the chalk; they end at Beachy Head, 530 feet (162 m) above sea level. To the east of Beachy Head lie the marshlands of the Pevensey Levels...
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    project. This project however is a replica of the fourth Atlantic 32424 Beachy Head and will incorporate some parts from the original locomotive. LMS Patriot...
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