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    Chesil Beach (also known as Chesil Bank) in Dorset, England is one of three major shingle beach structures in Britain. Its name is derived from the word...
    26 KB (2,999 words) - 21:38, 4 August 2024
  • On Chesil Beach is a 2017 British drama film directed by Dominic Cooke (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Ian McEwan, who adapted his own...
    16 KB (1,503 words) - 18:35, 24 August 2024
  • On Chesil Beach is a 2007 novella by the British writer Ian McEwan. It was selected for the 2007 Booker Prize shortlist. The Washington Post and Pulitzer...
    10 KB (1,096 words) - 20:03, 16 August 2024
  • The Chesil Beach cannon consists of the remains of an unknown wreck were found on Chesil Beach, Dorset, England in 2010. The site was designated on 18...
    3 KB (399 words) - 18:17, 17 April 2022
  • the bar of Chesil Beach, the location of Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset. It has been modified to show Chesil Beach being named as Echo Beach. In 2010, the...
    11 KB (901 words) - 20:23, 13 August 2024
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    England. A barrier beach called Chesil Beach joins Portland with mainland England. The A354 road passes down the Portland end of the beach and then over the...
    85 KB (7,555 words) - 20:37, 8 August 2024
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    Howle (born 9 November 1989) is a British actor. His films include On Chesil Beach (2017), The Seagull (2018), and Outlaw King (2018). On television, he...
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    Saturday won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 2005. His novel On Chesil Beach (2007) was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and was adapted...
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    the case of longshore drift due to an oblique wave direction, like at Chesil Beach or Spurn Head, the flow of material is along the coast in a movement...
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    several small islands, the largest of which is Brownsea Island. Chesil Beach is a barrier beach on the southwest coast of the county. It is 29 kilometres (18 mi)...
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    Chesil Cove is a curved steep bank forming the south-east end of 29-kilometre (18 mi) Chesil Beach in Dorset, England. It is thus part of one of three...
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    island, but geographers now believe that Chesil Beach, which connects the island to the mainland, is a barrier beach that has moved eastwards, rather than...
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  • Mendes would direct a film adaptation of Ian McEwan's 2007 novella On Chesil Beach for Focus Features, with McEwan adapting his own work and Carey Mulligan...
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    common. Chesil Beach is a good example of a barrier beach and stretches for 18 miles (29 km) from Burton Bradstock to the Isle of Portland. The beach encloses...
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  • seems to have borrowed the main setting of his novella On Chesil Beach (2005) from "Dover Beach", additionally playing with the fact that Arnold's poem...
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    highest beach elevations. It may also contain many small parts of shipwrecked boats. A noted textbook example is the 18-mile (29 km) long Chesil Beach in Dorset...
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    carrying capacity of an Avro Lancaster. The first air drop trials were at Chesil Beach in December 1942; these used a spinning 4 ft 6 in sphere dropped from...
    51 KB (6,060 words) - 20:00, 25 August 2024
  • Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz; A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini; On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan;    Nobel Prize: Doris Lessing 2008 –    Nobel Prize: J...
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    site around the Fleet Lagoon protected from the weather of Lyme Bay by Chesil Beach, it is the only managed swannery in the world, and can number over 600...
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    newlyweds on their honeymoon in a film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel On Chesil Beach. In a mixed review of the latter film, Kate Erbland of IndieWire thought...
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