Beachy Head

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Beach·y Head

(bē′chē)

Chalk cliffs, 162 m (530 ft) high, on the southeast coast of England. In 1690 Beachy Head was the scene of a French naval victory over Anglo-Dutch forces.

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Beachy Head

(ˈbiːtʃɪ)

(Placename) a headland in East Sussex, on the English Channel, consisting of chalk cliffs 171 m (570 ft) high

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"It's like Kew Gardens on Beachy Head," said Ethel.

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Faye Reed, 22, stumbled over Beachy Head in East Sussex while walking in the dark with two girl pals.

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Fine, I thought, but sex in a camper van won't be half as exciting with view of a Beachy Head out the window rather than the California coastline.

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And this is the woman who once boasted that she's sooner jump off Beachy Head - a well-known suicide spot on the south Coast - than join Ukip.

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Jackie Doyle-Price told a local newspaper that she would "sooner jump off Beachy Head" than join the Eurosceptic party Ukip.

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Around 20 people a year kill themselves by throwing themselves from the chalk cliffs at Beachy Head, in East Sussex, and patrols are carried out in the area in the hope of dissuading people from jumping.

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The bodies of 10 people have been found at the bottom of cliffs at Beachy Head, East Sussex, in a fortnight.

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Beachy Head tragedy POLICE have launched an investigation after the bodies of a five-year-old boy and his mother were found at Beachy Head.

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It will be interesting to see if Beachy Head, winner of this race last season, can bring it on again and give Emirati handler Ali Rashid Al Rayhi another feature race victory at the track following Kasb two weeks ago.

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Jessie Earl STUDENT Jessie vanished in May, 1980 and her bones were found in a hedge near Beachy Head nine years later.

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A major operation was under way on Monday morning at Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, after a body was spotted on the beach below.