The White Cliffs
Where the South Downs Meets the Sea
The ancient name for the island of Britain was Albion, and that name is said to have come from the white cliffs on its Southern shores.
Perhaps the most famous of these cliffs are the white cliffs of Dover, further along to the East,. Whilst Dover may be more well known it is the cliffs of Sussex, and in particular the Seven Sisters, that are the most dramatic. and largest extent of chalk sea cliffs in the world.
The white cliffs of Sussex, and The Seven Sisters, are part of the South Downs National Park, where the green rolling hills meet the sea and expose the white chalk that sit just under the surface. The white cliffs are one of the most evocative images in the whole of the United Kingdom, an image that for centuries greeted all those arriving on these islands and to the many who left was the last of image of Britain they would ever see.
The White Cliffs Story
At the end of the last ice age, some 12,000 years ago much of Britain, and Northern Europe was covered by a vast sheet of ice, as the climate changed and things warmed up, the ice melted, huge quantities of water carved out the chalk creating the channel between the UK and France, creating the majestic white cliffs of the Seven Sisters.
You came and looked and saw the view Long known and loved by me Green Sussex fading into blue With just a touch of sea.
