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HELBRE, a headland and islets in Cheshire. The headland is the western point of the Wirral peninsula, at the mouth of the Dee, 7½ miles W by S of Birkenhead. The islets are a group of rocks, 1 mile W of the headland; and the largest of them, called Great Helbre, was once a Roman station, and has now two beacons to mark the Swash channel, between the Hoyle sands, leading into Hoylake roadstead.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a headland and islets" (ADL Feature Type: "capes") |
Administrative units: | Cheshire AncC |
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