Everything about Langdon Bay Kent totally explained
Langdon Bay is a
bay in east
Kent, England. It is named after the nearby villages of
Langdon,
East Langdon and
West Langdon. The cliffs around it are known as the
Langdon Cliffs.
History
The bay is known for a hoard of
Bronze Age scrap metal found nearby in 1974. This includes bronze axes of a French type and is thought to represent the cargo of a
boat that was caught in a storm just after leaving the English coast, either jettisoned to lighten and save the boat or sunk with it (if there was a wreck, it's now lost). This demonstrates that
cross-channel trade was already occurring in the Bronze Age, if not earlier. It is owned by the
British Museum but on long-term loan and display in
Dover Museum in Market Square, Dover.
Three searchlight batteries - known as the Langdon Lights - were built into the base of the bay's cliffs during
World War II, so that any ship trying to enter the bay could be illuminated while it was checked, though one has been destroyed by a cliff fall.
The area above the cliffs is now a
chalk downland nature reserve owned by the
National Trust, looking down on
Dover Harbour and the Channel, and centred around the 'Gateway to the
White Cliffs'
Visitor Centre. Large parts of this reserve, and of this section of clifftop in general, is an
SSSI,
AONB and
Heritage Coast. Another nearby historic site is the
South Foreland Lighthouse, also an NT property.
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