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Foreland, Isle of Wight

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Foreland Fields includes Bembridge ledge, an area formerly popular with shipwrecks and smuggling, but also for crab and lobster fishing; there is a Coastguard Station. The channel through the interior of the Bembridge Ledges is known as "Dickie Dawes Gut" after a notorious local smuggler (and father
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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 Inn are photographs of the many shipwrecks, which included the submarine
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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
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View of Forelands and the Bembridge ledge from Culver Down, with the mainland in the far distance
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carrying troops from South Africa, with great loss of life.
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50°40′57″N 1°04′36″W / 50.68250°N 1.07667°W / 50.68250; -1.07667
Isle of Wight
Bembridge
Portsmouth
British
Solent
beach huts
HMS Alliance
Gosport
S.S. Mehndi
Sophie Dawes
pillbox
Horsetails
50°41′10″N 1°04′12″W / 50.68611°N 1.07000°W / 50.68611; -1.07000
"Bembridge Ledge / Forelands Beach"
"HMS Alliance"
"The hidden history of the sinking of the SS Mendi"
"Isle of Wight Historic Environment Record"
"Be,bridge Foreland"
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Isle of Wight
Brading
Cowes
East Cowes
Newport
Ryde

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