England's crushing defeat by France, the dominant naval power, in naval engagements culminating in the 1690 Battle of Beachy Head, became the catalyst for England's rebuilding itself as a global power.

* July 10 – Anglo-Dutch navy defeated by the French in the Battle of Beachy Head ( also known as the Battle of Bévéziers ), giving rise to fears of a Jacobite invasion of England.

Following cremation at Woking Crematorium, his ashes were scattered off Beachy Head, near Eastbourne as he had requested.

As they loomed up out of the fog, a signal lieutenant in Barfleur described them as " thumpers, looming like Beachy Head in a fog.

The battle was overshadowed in its time in England by the defeat of an Anglo-Dutch fleet by the French two days later at the Battle of Beachy Head, a far more serious event in the short term ; only on the continent was the Boyne treated as an important victory.

He and Connolly would leave the school grounds and set out across the Downs to Beachy Head, or far along the plunging leafy roads that led deep into the Sussex countryside, to villages that might have figured in a Wells novel: Eastdean and Westdean and Jevington.

The first Heritage Coast was Beachy Head with its famous white cliffs.

To the north the town faces the chalk downland of the South Downs, and along the coast to the east are the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs, and Beachy Head.

This stretch of coast is notified for its geological and ecological features as Seaford to Beachy Head Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Although mentioned ( along with Brighton, Beachy Head, and Eastbourne ), the references are vague and one would not recognise the town from the book.

In 1828, he financed the building of the Belle Tout lighthouse, on the cliff at Beachy Head, near Eastbourne.

Where the downs meet the sea, characteristic white chalk cliffs form, such as the White Cliffs of Dover and Beachy Head.

* South Downs ( Beachy Head, Seven Sisters, Ditchling Beacon, Butser Hill )

Looking towards the Beachy Head cliffs and lighthouse from the west near Birling Gap

Beachy Head is a chalk headland in Southern England, close to the town of Eastbourne in the county of East Sussex, immediately east of the Seven Sisters.

Aerial view of Beachy Head

Wave action contributes towards the erosion of cliffs around Beachy Head, which experience frequent small rock falls.

The name Beachy Head appears as ' Beauchef ' in 1274, and was ' Beaucheif ' in 1317, becoming consistently Beachy Head by 1724, and has nothing to do with beach.

In 1929 Eastbourne bought of land surrounding Beachy Head to save it from development at a cost of about £ 100, 000.

The prominence of Beachy Head has made it a landmark for sailors in the English Channel.

The ashes of German social scientist and philosopher Friedrich Engels, one of the fathers of communism, were scattered off the cliffs at Beachy Head into the Channel, as he had requested.

In 1831, construction began on Belle Tout lighthouse on the next headland west from Beachy Head.

Because mist and low clouds could hide the light of Belle Tout, another lighthouse was built in the sea below Beachy Head.

The Battle of Beachy Head in 1690 was a naval engagement during the Nine Years ' War.

* The 2010 remake of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock was filmed extensively on Beachy Head as well as in nearby Eastbourne, which was preferred to Brighton.

* In the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Beachy Head was used as hosting grounds for the 1994 Quidditch World Cup.

* The cover photo of English avant-garde quartet Throbbing Gristle's 1979 record 20 Jazz Funk Greats was taken at Beachy Head.

Countersigned by Nottingham, the orders reached the admiral on 9 July whilst he was off Beachy Head.

In July 1690, after the French Admiral Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeated an Anglo-Dutch fleet at the Battle of Beachy Head, the French fleet was anchored in Torbay and some of the galley fleet travelled the short distance up the coast and attacked Teignmouth.

He was assigned to act as master of the fleet, and took part in the English defeat in the Battle of Beachy Head.

Beachy Head, where Jimmy may or may not have tried to kill himself at the end of the film, was the location of a real-life suicide that supposedly influenced the film's ending.

Nibrunesi Point was under the guns of the Royal Navy so was never used to fire on Anzac, however the well-concealed Turkish battery at Gaba Tepe, known as " Beachy Bill ", was a constant menace.

The BBC adaptation was partly shot at the Belle Tout lighthouse at Beachy Head, which has since been moved several meters from the cliff edge, due to the rapid rate of coastal erosion in the area.

There have been several finds including some in Beaker settlements, a significant settlement was one discovered near Beachy Head, in 1909.

* The Battle of Beachy Head ( 1690 ), during the War of the Grand Alliance, was fought between an Anglo-Dutch fleet under the Earl of Torrington and a French fleet under the Comte Anne Hilarion de Tourville.

* The Battle of Beachy Head ( 1707 ), during the War of Spanish Succession was a victory for the French fleet under Admiral-chevalier Claude de Forbin over a British convoy of 54 transports escorted by 4 English ships of line

" Also in that announcement was the addition of two new band members, Andrew Welch on guitar, and Israel Beachy on bass.

From 1688 forward he served on the amalgamated Anglo-Dutch fleet until he was killed in the Battle of Beachy Head.

* Local Eastbourne band The Removalists also shot the video for Last Train to Soul Bay at Beachy Head.

There is also a track named " Beachy Head " on the album.

The national park covers not only the chalk ridge of the South Downs, with its celebrated chalk downland landscape that culminates in the iconic chalky white cliffs of Beachy Head, but also a substantial part of a separate physiographic region, the western Weald, with its heavily wooded sandstone and clay hills and vales.

The service is combined with the 12A which follows the same route but also serves Beachy Head.