A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
DUNGE-NESS, a low shingly headland on the SE coast of Kent; 10¾ miles E by S of Rye. It is surrounded by flats and sand-shoals; it gains so rapidly, by accumulation of shingle upon it from the sea, as to have increased upwards of a mile seaward within the memory of persons now alive; and it contrasts strikingly, by its lowness, with the bold cliffs of the headland next to it on the Channel, the headland of Beachy. A lighthouse on it was founded, in the time of James I., by a goldsmith of the name of Allen; and this gave place, in 1792, to a new lighthouse, designed by Wyatt, in imitation of that of Eddystone, built wholly at the expense of the Ven. Earl of Leicester, rising to the height of 92 feet, and visible at the distance of 14 miles.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a low shingly headland" (ADL Feature Type: "capes") |
| Administrative units: | Kent AncC |
| Place: | Dungeness |
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