Beer (Devon)
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 42 ′ N , 3 ° 6 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 1381 | ||
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| ZIP code section | EX12 | ||
| prefix | 1297 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South West England | ||
| Shire county | Devon | ||
| District | East Devon | ||
| Website: beervillage.co.uk | |||
Beer is a village on the English Channel coast in the east of the county of Devon . It belongs to the District East Devon and counted 1,381 inhabitants in the 2,001th
location
The village of Beer is right on the coast between Exeter and Dorchester . It is about two kilometers west of Seaton , about 35 kilometers east of the city of Exeter and 13 kilometers east of Sidmouth .
history
The population used to live from smuggling and lace making . Today the area is a popular tourist destination.
The village
The village of Beer has a pebble beach and stretches up from the sea along the cliffs. Tourists can admire the view of the sea, buy freshly caught fish and visit caves in the sand-lime brick , which probably gave the village its name.
The name “Beer” was not associated with the drink, but rather goes back to an old word for “forest area” or cave (Anglo-Saxon “bearu” = “grove” / cave). The caves were used by smugglers to hide their booty.
It is likely that the southern slopes of the cliffs were once used by the monks of Sherborne and Newham monasteries to grow grapes. The sand-lime brick was already extracted as a building material by the Romans in quarries. The white limestone coast changes here to the red variant.
geology
The coastline and cliffs along the English Channel coast in East Devon and Dorset are among the natural wonders of the world. From Orcombe Point , near Exmouth , to Old Harry Rocks , east of Studland Bay , there is a 155-kilometer stretch of coastline that was the first natural landscape in England to be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Beer is a " gateway town ", the cliffs and the beach are part of the so-called Jurassic Coast .
The rock layers along the Jurassic Coast tilted slightly to the east. The oldest part of the coast is therefore found in the western area, progressively younger rock forms the cliffs further east. The natural revelations along the coast reveal a continuous sequence of geological structures formed in the Triassic , Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and present around 185 million years of geological history.
Individual evidence
- ^ Dorset and East Devon Coast . UNESCO World Heritage Center. 2001. Retrieved November 16, 2010.