UNITED KINGDOM, England

UNITED KINGDOM. England.

A British Journey.
Beachy Head, Sussex coast.
Second stamp in a set of 10, issued on 07.02.2006.
No face value: 1st Class.
Design: Phelan Barker Design Consultants.
Printed by De La Rue & Co. Ltd., Basingstoke (England).
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 35 x 35 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 2578.
- Michel No. 2276 (?).
- Scott No. 2344.
- StampWorld No. 2359.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2598.
- Unificato No. 2770.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 2721.

Beachy Head is a chalk headland in East Sussex. It is situated close to Eastbourne within the administrative area of Eastbourne Borough Council which owns the land. The cliff rising to 162 m (531 ft) above sea level. In 1831, construction began on the Belle Tout Lighthouse on the next headland west from Beachy Head. Because mist and low clouds could hide the light of Belle Tout, it was decommissioned in 1902, after the Beachy Head Lighthouse had been built in the sea below Beachy Head as a replacement. The ashes of German social scientist and philosopher Friedrich Engels were scattered off the cliffs at Beachy Head into the Channel, as he had requested.