Coastal Britain

[bloater]

Can anyone help with these please?

1. Napoleonic wars coastal defence (8,6
2. Half an ex-England cricket batsman (6)
3. Famous for it's three layered cliffs (10)
4. Beaches for an ex-England cricket captain (5,10)
5. A man from here was Coleridge's unwanted "guest" (7)
6. Ernest was going there in a handbag (8)
7. Naval graveyard (5,4)
8. Kent coast widow maker (7,5)

[Aquagility]

6 Brighton

[Aquagility]

1 martello tower

[Rollo]

8 Goodwin sands

[glasman]

6. Maybe wrong, but thought Worthing?

[glasman]

8 Goodwin Sands

[Aquagility]

I think you're right, glasman. Homer nods (quite a lot).

[Fibonacci]

7 Scapa Flow

[Fibonacci]

5 Gower Peninsula ? although this is 5,9

[Fibonacci]

sorry that should have been q4

[glasman]

5 Read through 'The Ancient Mariner' and can't find any
useful reference.

[glasman]

6 Aquagility :-
Jack. Miss Prism, this is a matter of no small importance to me. I insist on knowing where you deposited the hand-bag that contained that infant.
Miss Prism. I left it in the cloak-room of one of the larger railway stations in London.
Jack. What railway station?
Miss Prism. [Quite crushed.] Victoria. The Brighton line.

So we're both perhaps right?

[paddywak]

No 5 possibly Purlock. Coleridge always claimed that his unfinished work Kublai Khan came to him in a drug induced dream and that he was awoken from his dream by a "Person from Purlock" who continued to pester him till he lost track of his dream and could not complete the poem

[bloater]

Thanks everyone