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BIRLING GAP, a depression and an artificial cut in the bold high coast of Sussex; 1½ mile W of Beachy Head. The cut was made to afford means of escape to shipwrecked mariners; and was, for some time, defended by an arch and portcullis, vestiges of which still exist.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a depression and an artificial cut" (ADL Feature Type: "gaps") |
| Administrative units: | Sussex Ancient County |
| Place: | Birling Gap |
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