Beachy Head lighthouse under construction |
The prominence of Beachy Head has always made it a landmark for sailors in the English Channel. It is noted as such in the sea shanty Spanish Ladies:
- The first land we sighted was called the Dodman,
- Next Rame Head off Plymouth, off Portsmouth the Wight;
- We sailed by Beachy, by Fairlight and Dover,
- And then we bore up for the South Foreland light.
Beachy Head is notorious as a popular location for people to commit suicide.
The Battle of Beachy Head, 1690, was a naval engagement during the War of the Grand Alliance
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