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The Seven Sisters are a series of chalk sea cliffs on the English Channel coast, and are a stretch of the sea-eroded section of the South Downs range of hills, in the county of East Sussex, in south-east England. The Seven Sisters cliffs run between the mouth of the River Cuckmere near Seaford, and the chalk headland of Beachy Head outside of ...
Beachy Head is a chalk headland in East Sussex, England.It is situated close to Eastbourne, immediately east of the Seven Sisters.. Beachy Head is located within the administrative area of Eastbourne Borough Council which owns the land, forming part of the Eastbourne Downland Estate.
The South Downs National Park is England's newest national park, designated on 31 March 2010. [1] The park, covering an area of 1,627 square kilometres (628 sq mi) in southern England, stretches for 140 kilometres (87 mi) from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east through the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex.
Pages in category "Country parks in East Sussex" ... Seven Sisters, East Sussex This page was last edited on 21 November 2019, at 07:24 (UTC). ...
The East Sussex Transport and Trading Company extracted gravel from the beach at Cuckmere Haven. It transported the material to the road at Exceat on a 2-foot (610 mm) gauge tramway a mile (1.6 km) long, established in the early 1930s and closed in 1964. The tramway began in what is now the car park on the southern side of the main road.
The Seven Sisters cliffs and the coastguard cottages, from Seaford Head across the River Cuckmere. The Chalk Group is the most well known rock in East Sussex, forming the Downs and where it meets the sea the spectacular Seven Sisters and geologically and biologically rich cliffs from Brighton to Newhaven. The Chalk formed in a warm, clear sea ...
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The A259 goes by it just east of the River Cuckmere. The name may have come from æc-sceat , an oak grove, [ 10 ] or from the Old English for "the place of the Aese", early kings of Kent whilst another etymology is possible from Brittonic wysg meaning water or river (or possibly " esgair meaning ridge) and ceat meaning woods, hence "Wooded ...