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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))
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| Feature Description: | "depression and artificial cut" (ADL Feature Type: "gaps") |
| Administrative units: | Sussex Ancient County |
| Place: | Birling Gap |
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