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    Chesil Cove is a curved steep bank forming the south-east end of 29-kilometre (18 mi) Chesil Beach in Dorset, England. It is thus part of one of three...
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    sharply at the eastern end, near the village of Chiswell, and forms Chesil Cove against the cliffs of the Isle of Portland, and this protects the low-lying...
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    Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, southern England. The cove is one of the world's finest examples...
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    formerly been known as Chesilton. The small bay at Chiswell is called Chesil Cove, and the beach promenade and sea wall which form Chiswell's coastal defences...
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    Abbotsbury Gardens Abbotsbury Swannery Chesil Beach Gore Cove Chickerell Bennetts Water Gardens Isle of Portland Chesil Cove Tar Rocks Clay Ope Hallelujah Bay...
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    situated within the village of Chiswell, and alongside Chesil Beach on the esplanade. The Cove House Inn remains one of Portland's most popular pubs,...
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    550 metres (600 yd) to the north of Chiswell, an extended sea wall in Chesil Cove, and a culvert running from inside the beach, underneath the beach road...
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  • The Chesil Beach cannon consists of the remains of an unknown wreck were found on Chesil Beach, Dorset, England in 2010. The site was designated on 18...
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    Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is found above Chesil Beach's most southerly part Chesil Cove, at the end of the promenade sea wall, towards West...
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    624605°N 2.545863°W / 50.624605; -2.545863 Gore Cove is an inlet cove in the Fleet lagoon behind Chesil Beach, on the south coast of Dorset, England, located...
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    natural arch at Durdle Door, the cove and limestone folding at Lulworth Cove and a tied island, the Isle of Portland. Chesil Beach is a fine example of both...
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    Stair Hole (category Coves of Dorset)
    Stair Hole is a small cove located just west of Lulworth Cove in Dorset, southern England. The folded limestone strata known as the Lulworth crumple are...
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  • fishing village at the southern end of Chesil Beach, in Underhill. The small bay at Chiswell is called Chesil Cove. The village itself is indistinguishable...
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    rocks. The quarryman Hiram Otter began creating a public footpath from Chesil Cove to Hallelujah Bay in the 1880s. He became renowned for etching biblical...
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  • displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Chesil Cove – Massive curved slope of shingle, at Chesil Beach in Dorset, England SS Chester A. Congdon –...
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    claimed the lives of 106 people, and by the dawn local fishermen at Chesil Cove rescued the survivors and brought them ashore. The disaster became national...
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    Community Trust obtained a lease on a derelict walled compound near Chesil Cove. The launching of the Countryside Agency's Doorstep Green Initiative...
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  • alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (W) "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved...
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  • London. 15 December 1831. col D, p. 6. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved...
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    flows westwards for about seven miles "before sinking into the shingle" of Chesil Beach. Further east along the coast is the River Wey, which flows into Radipole...
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  • Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved...
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    Point at the Humber; it is approximately 4.8 km (3.0 mi) long. Another is Chesil Beach in the UK, which connects the Isle of Portland to the mainland. The...
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    Sussex Bude, Cornwall Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset Castle Cove, Dorset Chesil Beach, Dorset Church Ope Cove, Dorset Clacton-on-Sea, Essex Crantock, Cornwall Dawlish...
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  • Northam.[citation needed] Christiana  Norway The barque was wrecked in Chesil Cove, Dorset, United Kingdom with the loss of two of her crew. She was on...
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    the south coast of England, in Dorset. It is protected from erosion by Chesil Beach and the Isle of Portland, and includes several beaches, notably Weymouth...
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    Burton Bradstock at the start of Chesil Beach, an 18-mile-long (29 km) tombolo. At Abbotsbury, the path leaves Chesil beach to follow the shores of the...
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    plaque was later placed near the square. Despite the construction of Chesil Cove's sea wall in 1958-1965, incidents of widespread flooding still occurred...
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    glacial period (from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago). A similar process formed Chesil Beach. Beaches formed like this are reworked by coastal processes now but...
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    (1.6 km) inland from the English Channel coast. The village, including Chesil Beach, the swannery and subtropical gardens, is owned by the Ilchester Estate...
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    of which are close to the shore of The Fleet, a brackish lagoon behind Chesil Beach. The name "Fleet" is derived from fleot, Old English for an inlet...
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