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Beachy Head and lighthouse. Britain's highest chalk sea-cliff, 162 metres (531 ft) above sea level near to Eastbourne on the Sussex coast, overlooking the English Channel. The chalk was formed in the Late Cretaceous epoch, between 66 and 100 million years ago, when the area was under the sea.

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Beachy Head and lighthouse. Britain's highest chalk sea-cliff, 162 metres (531 ft) above sea level near to Eastbourne on the Sussex coast, overlooking the English Channel. The chalk was formed in the Late Cretaceous epoch, between 66 and 100 million years ago, when the area was under the sea.