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Chesil Bank
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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'CHESIL BANK (A.S.' ceosol, pebble bank), a remarkable beach of shingle on the coast of Dorsetshire, England. It is separated from the mainland for 8 m. by an inlet called the Fleet, famous for its swannery, and continues in all for 18 m. southeastward from Abbotsbury, terminating at the so-called Isle of Portland. The height of the bank at the Portland end is 35 ft. above spring-tide level, and its breadth 200 yds. The greater height at this end accords with the general movement of shingle along this coast from west to east; and for the same reason the pebbles of the bank decrease in size from i to 3 in. in diameter at Portland to the size of peas at the western end,. where the breadth is only 170 yds.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Chesil Bank'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/chesil-bank.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Chesil Bank'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/chesil-bank.html. 1910.
