Cliffe Hill, the Glossary
Table of Contents
23 relations: Bronze Age, Cairn, Cremation, Crowborough, East Sussex, England, Flint, Golf, Gunpowder Plot, Henry VIII, Hill, Lewes, List of Marilyns in the British Isles, Long barrow, Martyr, Monastery, Obelisk, Ordnance Survey, Protestantism, Quarry, South Downs, Sussex, Tumulus.
- Hills of East Sussex
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
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Cairn
A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound.
Cremation
Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.
Crowborough
Crowborough is a town and civil parish in East Sussex, England, in the Weald at the edge of Ashdown Forest in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Royal Tunbridge Wells and 33 miles (53 km) south of London. Cliffe Hill and Crowborough are hills of East Sussex and Marilyns of England.
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East Sussex
East Sussex is a ceremonial county in South East England.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Flint
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.
Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James I by a group of English Catholics led by Robert Catesby who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.
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Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.
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Hill
A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain.
Lewes
Lewes is the county town of East Sussex, England.
List of Marilyns in the British Isles
This is a list of Marilyn hills and mountains in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and surrounding islands and sea stacks.
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Long barrow
Long barrows are a style of monument constructed across Western Europe in the fifth and fourth millennia BCE, during the Early Neolithic period.
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Martyr
A martyr (mártys, 'witness' stem, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party.
Monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).
Obelisk
An obelisk (from ὀβελίσκος; diminutive of ὀβελός obelos, "spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.
Ordnance Survey
The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Quarry
A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground.
South Downs
The South Downs are a range of chalk hills in the south-eastern coastal counties of England that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the Eastbourne Downland Estate, East Sussex, in the east. Cliffe Hill and south Downs are hills of East Sussex.
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Sussex
Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.
Tumulus
A tumulus (tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
See also
Hills of East Sussex
- Cliffe Hill
- Combe Hill, East Sussex
- Crowborough
- Ditchling Beacon
- Firle Beacon
- List of hills of East Sussex
- Mount Caburn
- Newmarket Hill, Sussex
- Senlac Hill
- South Downs
- Weald