Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Birling Gap

Birling Gap, depression and artificial cut, in high coast of E. Sussex, 1½ mile W. of Beachy Head; made to afford means of escape to shipwrecked mariners.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "depression and artificial cut"   (ADL Feature Type: "gaps")
Administrative units: Sussex AncC
Place: Birling Gap

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