Beachy Head
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ian Stannard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beachy Head Lighthouse and Beachy Head Bomber Command Memorial.
Beachy Head Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beachy Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in the English Channel below the cliffs of Beachy Head in East Sussex. It is 33 m in height and became operational in October 1902. It was the last wave-washed masonry lighthouse built by Trinity House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Dean and Friston.
Friston
Village
Photo: Toby Speight, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Dean and Friston is a civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.The two villages in the parish are in a dry valley on the South Downs – between Eastbourne three miles to the east and Seaford an equal distance to the west. Friston is situated 2½ miles northwest of Beachy Head.
Eastbourne
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eastbourne is a popular and traditional sea-side resort town in East Sussex, on England's South East coast. It has one of the highest recorded days of sunshine per year in Britain and its climate is notable for its relatively high sunshine levels, with the town claiming to be the "Sunniest Place in the UK".
Beachy Head
- Type: Cape
- Description: chalk headland in East Sussex, England
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Eastbourne District, East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Beachy Head” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቢቺ ኸድ”
- Armenian: “Բիչի Հեդ”
- Armenian: “Բիչի-Հեդ”
- Basque: “Beachy lurmuturra”
- Bulgarian: “Бийчи Хед”
- Catalan: “Beachy Head”
- Chinese: “俾赤岬”
- Chinese: “比切峭壁”
- Chinese: “比奇角”
- Chinese: “海滩之顶”
- Chinese: “海灘之頂”
- Czech: “Beachy Head”
- Dutch: “Beachy Head”
- Dutch: “Bevesier”
- Dutch: “Bévesier”
- Dutch: “Beveziers”
- Dutch: “Béveziers”
- Esperanto: “Beachy Head”
- Finnish: “Beachy Head”
- French: “Beachy Head”
- French: “cap Béveziers”
- Galician: “Beachy Head”
- German: “Beachy Head”
- Hebrew: “ביצ’י הד”
- Italian: “Beachy Head”
- Japanese: “ビーチー・ヘッド”
- Japanese: “ビーチーヘッド”
- Japanese: “ビーチー岬”
- Japanese: “ビーチヘッド”
- Kazakh: “Бичи-Хед”
- Lithuanian: “Bičio kyšulys”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beachy Head”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beachy Head”
- Norwegian: “Beachy Head”
- Polish: “Beachy Head”
- Portuguese: “Beachy Head”
- Russian: “Бичи-Хед”
- Russian: “Бичи-Хэд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Beachy Head”
- Slovenian: “Beachy Head”
- Spanish: “Cabo Beachy”
- Swedish: “Beachy head”
- Swedish: “Beachy Head”
- Turkish: “Beachy Head”
- Vietnamese: “Beachy Head”
- Welsh: “Pentir Beachy”
- Wu Chinese: “昂头角”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Belle Tout Lighthouse and Belle Tout.
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