Foreland
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Foreland is the easternmost point of the Isle of Wight
. It is located three miles (five kilometres) east of the town of Brading
, and due south of the city of Portsmouth
on the British
mainland. It is characterised by a pub called the Crab and Lobster and various beach huts plus a beach cafe and a coast guard lookout. In the sea are the reefs of Bembridge Ledge which is rich in edible crabs, lobsters and spider crabs and shoals of mackerel. In the Crab & Lobster pub are photographs of the many shipwrecks, which included the submarine HMS Alliance
, now a museum ship at Gosport
and the First World War troopship the S.S. Mehndi carrying troops from South Africa, with great loss of life.
The channel through the interior of the Bembridge Ledges is known as "Dickie Dawes Gut" after a notorious local smuggler (and father of the courtesan Sophie Dawes) due to his feat of escaping the excise men by superior local navigational knowledge.
There was a pill-box built in the Second World War, now subsumed in the sea defences. The beach is sandy with stones which contain cretaceous fossils. The cliffs also feature Horsetails ferns.
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...
. It is located three miles (five kilometres) east of the town of Brading
Brading
The ancient 'Kynges Towne' of Brading is the main town of the civil parish of the same name. The ecclesiastical parish of Brading used to cover about a tenth of the Isle of Wight. The current civil parish now includes the town itself and Adgestone, Morton, Nunwell and other outlying areas between...
, and due south of the city of Portsmouth
Portsmouth
Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...
on the British
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
mainland. It is characterised by a pub called the Crab and Lobster and various beach huts plus a beach cafe and a coast guard lookout. In the sea are the reefs of Bembridge Ledge which is rich in edible crabs, lobsters and spider crabs and shoals of mackerel. In the Crab & Lobster pub are photographs of the many shipwrecks, which included the submarine HMS Alliance
HMS Alliance
Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Alliance:*Alliance, a 20-gun ship, originally called Alliante captured from the Dutch Navy off the coast of Norway on 22 August 1795 and used as a store ship...
, now a museum ship at Gosport
Gosport
Gosport is a town, district and borough situated on the south coast of England, within the county of Hampshire. It has approximately 80,000 permanent residents with a further 5,000-10,000 during the summer months...
and the First World War troopship the S.S. Mehndi carrying troops from South Africa, with great loss of life.
The channel through the interior of the Bembridge Ledges is known as "Dickie Dawes Gut" after a notorious local smuggler (and father of the courtesan Sophie Dawes) due to his feat of escaping the excise men by superior local navigational knowledge.
There was a pill-box built in the Second World War, now subsumed in the sea defences. The beach is sandy with stones which contain cretaceous fossils. The cliffs also feature Horsetails ferns.