Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for North Foreland

North Foreland, headland, on NE. coast of Kent, 3 miles SE. of Margate; on the headland is the North Foreland Lighthouse, 85 ft. high, with occulting light 188 ft. above high water and seen 19 miles.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "headland"   (ADL Feature Type: "harbors")
Administrative units: Kent AncC
Place: North Foreland

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