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- Chesil_Beach abstract "Chesil Beach /ˈtʃɛzᵻl/, sometimes called Chesil Bank, in Dorset, southern England is one of three major shingle structures in Britain. Its toponym is derived from the Old English ceosel or cisel, meaning \"gravel\" or \"shingle\".The beach is often identified as a tombolo, although research into the geomorphology of the area has revealed that it is in fact a barrier beach which has \"rolled\" landwards, joining the mainland with the Isle of Portland, giving the appearance of a tombolo. The shingle beach is 29 kilometres (18 mi) long, 200 metres (660 ft) wide and 15 metres (50 ft) high. The beach and the Fleet are part of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the location for a 2007 novel, On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.At the eastern end of the beach at the village of Chiswell, against the cliffs of the Isle of Portland, the beach curves round sharply to form Chesil Cove. This part of the beach protects the low-lying village from flooding. The beach has been the scene of many shipwrecks, and as such was named by Thomas Hardy as \"Dead Man's Bay\". Westwards the shingle forms a straight line along the coast, enclosing the Fleet, a shallow tidal lagoon.The beach provides shelter from the prevailing winds and waves for the town of Weymouth and the village of Chiswell on Portland.Varying with the Bank's unbroken increase in height, to 14.7 metres (48 ft), above mean high water, the size of the flint and chert shingle varies from pea-sized at the north-west end (by West Bay) to orange-sized at the south-east end (by Portland). It is said that smugglers who landed on the beach in the middle of the night could judge \"exactly where they were\" by the size of the shingle.There are three owners of the beach; the Crown Estates own the beach from Portland to its boundary stone at Littlesea. The bed of the lagoon and Chesil Beach adjacent to the Fleet, as well as the majority of the land of Upper Fleet to West Bexington, is owned by the Ilchester Estates, who are based north of Dorchester, but also have a local office in Abbotsbury. Finally from West Bexington to West Bay it is owned by the National Trust. The whole of Chesil Beach south from the Portland Bound Stone is registered common land over which there is a right of public access on foot.".
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- Chesil_Beach wikiPageExternalLink www.chesilbeach.org.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageExternalLink FSG.
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- Chesil_Beach wikiPageExternalLink UK9010091.htm.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageExternalLink www.thefleetobserver.co.uk.
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- Chesil_Beach wikiPageRevisionID "686224672".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Abbotsbury.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Abbotsbury_Swannery.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Admiralty_scaffolding.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Beach.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Bouncing_bomb.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink British_anti-invasion_preparations_of_the_Second_World_War.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink British_hardened_field_defences_of_World_War_II.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Budleigh_Salterton.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Category:Beaches_of_Dorset.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geography_of_Weymouth,_Dorset.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Category:Isle_of_Portland.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Category:Jurassic_Coast.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lagoons_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Category:Nature_Conservation_Review_sites.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ramsar_sites_in_England.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sites_of_Special_Scientific_Interest_in_Dorset.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Category:Special_Protection_Areas_in_England.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Category:Spits_of_England.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tombolos.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Chert.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Chesil_Cove.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Chiswell.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Country_Life_(magazine).
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Dorset.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink England.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Exmouth.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Ferry_Bridge,_Dorset.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Flame_fougasse.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Flandrian_interglacial.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Fleet,_Dorset.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Flint.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Fossil.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Gore_Cove.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Ian_McEwan.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Isle_of_Portland.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Isle_of_Purbeck.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Isostasy.
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- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Jurassic.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Jurassic_Coast.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Lagoon.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Land_mine.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink List_of_beaches_in_Dorset.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink List_of_places_on_the_Jurassic_Coast.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Machine_gun.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Moonfleet.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Old_English.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Old_Harry_Rocks.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink On_Chesil_Beach.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Orcombe_Point.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Portland_Harbour.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Prevailing_winds.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Refraction.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Salinity.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Sea_level_rise.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Sediment_transport.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Shingle_beach.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Shoal.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink The_Cove_House_Inn.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Tombolo.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Toponymy.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Triassic.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink UNESCO.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Wave.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink West_Bay,_Dorset.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Weymouth,_Dorset.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink World_Heritage_Site.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink Wyke_Regis_Training_Area.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink File:ChesilBeach.JPG.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink File:ChesilBeachPanorama.jpg.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink File:Chesil_cove_from_west_cliff_portland_dorset.jpg.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLink File:Highball_Bouncing_Bomb_at_Abbotsbury_Swannery_Dorset_UK.JPG.
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "Britain's largest tidal lagoon".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "Chesil Beach".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "Chesil & The Fleet".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "Chesil Beach".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "Chesil Beach#The Fleet Lagoon".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "Chesil and the Fleet".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "Chesil beach".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "Chiswell Bank".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fleet lagoon".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fleet".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "The Fleet".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "The Fleet's Beaches".
- Chesil_Beach wikiPageWikiLinkText "the Fleet".
- Chesil_Beach country "England".