10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOR BAY»
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Pub. 191Sailing Directions (Enroute) English Channel 2006 ...
Berry Head Light (Coast Guard Station) Tor Bay (50°26'N., 3°28'W.), entered
between Berry Head and Hope's Nose, about 4 miles N, affords good shelter in
W winds, but E or SE gales send in a heavy dangerous sea. The Ridge, a shoal
area ...
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The Australia directory. Vol.1. 5th-10th ed. [With]
dicular rocky bluffs' of moderate height and even aspect, rising gradually behind
the coast to hills of nearly 800 feet elevation. tides It is high water at West Cape
Howe, full and change, at 9h. ; rise 6 feet. tor bay, which includes Ports Harding ...
Admiralty hydrogr. dept,
1868
SALADINMUTINY Just offshore from Drum Head, which is on Highway 316
between the Country Harbour ferry and Tor Bay, is Harbour Island: its southern
end is named 'Saladin Point' after a vessel which ran aground here in 1844.
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Pub191, 2004 Sailing Directions (Enroute): English Channel
2.4 Berry Head (50°14'N., 3°29'W.) is the NE extremity of the broad rocky
peninsula formed between the River Dart and Tor Bay. It consists of a steep-to
limestone cliff, which rises from the sea nearly perpendicular to a height of 55m.
A main ...
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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects ...
Tor Bay. To the Editor of the Nautical Magazine. Sir, — In the description given of
the scenery about Tor Bay in the first volume of the Naval Chronicle, is the
following extract : " It has often been a subject of surprise to naval men, that no
attempt ...
Three Cliffs Bay, Tor Bay, Nicholaston Woods and Cefn Bryn start/Finish
Penmaen (SS 5314 8877) Distance 10km (61⁄4 miles) total ascent 355m time 21⁄
2hrs refreshments None This route takes in some of the finest coastal scenery in
Gower, ...
Red cliffs and blue-green sea give life to the resorts. The towns of Tor Bay -once
called the 'English Riviera' without irony-are fused into one by bay-windowed
Victorian terraces and fish and chip shops. This is the tourist hub of Devon:
Torquay ...
just offshore from Drum Head, which is on Highway 3 1 6 between the Country
Harbour ferry and Tor Bay, is Harbour Island: its southern end is named 'Saladin
Point' after a vessel which ran aground here in 1 844. More interesting than the ...
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Geographical Dictionary of the World
Tor Bay) a picturesque bay, of the English Channel, on the E. coast of
Devonshire, between the headlands of Bob's Nose and Berry Head. On its N.
shore is Torquay, and on its S. side is Brixham. William III. landed here on Nov. 5,
1688.
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Crusoe, written by himself [by D. Defoe
The geographical site of Tor-bay (that is of the flag-staff on Berry- head,) is in
latitude 50° 24' 0.7" N. longitude 3° 28' 14.4" W. The JBabal dfjroniclf contains a
picturesque view of Tor-bay in vol. i. p. 328 ; and a second view of Tor-bay in xiii.
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