Talk:Dungeness

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"It also featured in an episode of the the BBC detective serial 'the inspector linley mysteries'. One glitch, saw a thrilling chase startnear the nuclear power station and end with the bad guy beig caught by the policeman on a sand dune; the chase was poorly represented on screen as it must have gone on for some time, the nearest dunes are at Camber 8 miles away."

This supposed glitch sounds a lot more like an example of poetic licence and should probably be removed. At any rate, I'm sure the place has been on TV many times, and pointing out examples of scene discontinuity is hardly what wp is about. At the very least, the spelling and grammar need cleaned up.86.0.203.120 01:51, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

"The most famous house in Dungeness is the cottage formerly owned by the late artist and film director Derek Jarman."

Perhaps it may be more appropriate that the 'Rubber House' be added into this Dungeness article as the current titleholder?

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This article begins with a completely erroneous statement that "Dungeness is a village ..." It isn't - it's only the furthest point to which the Denge Beach reaches into the English Channel. OS map Sheet 189 shows this perfectly clearly. What is there is what is said later on - a collection of huts and wooden shacks along the coast as far as The Pilot public house, and few more down towards the end. If we want to write about Dungeness, then it should be only as part of the Romney Marsh article - since that is what it is. If people want to say they live at Dungeness, they can, but it doesn't make the place any more than a scattered settlement. (See the Wikipedia article village by the way.)

It is the logical extension of the fact that the marsh was drained and it then caused the tidal action along the south coast to start depositing shingle ... and more shingle. The sea-bed contours drop very steeply off the end of Dungeness, so that shipping down the Channel passes very close by.

It may be 'logical' in a 'Dan Brown' sort of way, but it ain't science. Please follow the link to the University of Liverpool website in the main article. Romney Marsh only exists because of the protection offered by the shingle headland.