A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
NORTH SEA, or German Ocean, the sea or ocean lying between Great Britain and the Continent. It was known to the Romans as Oceanus Germanicus. It lies between lat. 51o and 59o N, and long. 2½o W and 8½o E; and measures about 480 miles in length, 250 miles in mean breadth, and 120,000 geographical square miles inarea. Its breadth from Kent to Holland is 63 miles; from Norfolk to Holland, 100 miles; from Flamborough Head to Denmark, 300 miles. The half of it S E of aline drawn N E by N from Flamborough Head is much shallower than the other half, and has a depth of from15 to 40 fathoms; and the S part of the other half, opposite Northumberland, lies largely on the great flats and called the Dogger bank. The chief features of its shores and waters along the English coast are the South Foreland, with its light; the Goodwin sands, with their lights and safety beacon; the North Foreland, with its light; the month of the Thames estuary, with its lights and shoals; the Naze and the Orwell's mouth, with Landguard fort and the neighbouring shoals; Orfordness, with its light, and with Aldborough-Knapes, Ship wash and other shoals; Lowestoft cliffs and harbour, with then eighbouring Southwold, where the Dutch were beatenby James II.; the Corton, Scrooby, Ulwarp, and other shoals near Yarmouth; the long, low, continuous, curving coast of Norfolk, with numerous shoals off it, and with the Winterton light 7 miles N by W of Yarmouth and the Foulness light near Cromer; the mouth of the Wash, with the Hunstanton light on the S side and Gibraltar on the N; the low continuous coast of Lincoln, with the Dudgeon light, the Dowsing shoals, and the Silverpits; the mouth of the Humber, with the Spurn Headlight on its N side; Flamborough-Head, with its light; Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby scars or cliffs, with alight on the last; the Tees month, with the scars off Redcar; Hartlepool, Seaham, and Sunderland harbours; the Tyne's mouth, with artificial works there for aiding the navigation to Shields and Newcastle; Coquet island, with its light; the Fern islands, with their lights; Holy island; and the mouth of the Tweed.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Place names: | GERMAN OCEAN | NORTH SEA | NORTH SEA OR GERMAN OCEAN | OCEANUS GERMANICUS |