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unusual facts about Start Point, Sanday



Deep Green Resistance

DGR draws on the philosophy and writings of many authors, including Arne Næss, Richard Manning, Andrea Dworkin, Peggy Reeves Sanday, David Abram, Chellis Glendinning, Chris Hedges, Joseph Tainter, Richard Heinberg, Daniel Quinn, Zoe Blunt and Jerry Mander, among others.

Hardy Monument

From the top of the monument at a height of 850 feet above sea level it is possible to see on a clear day: Start Point, Devon, St. Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight both of which are 90 kilometres distant and to the North can be seen Pen Hill in the Mendip Hills which is 65 kilometres away.

HMS Goldfinch

She was wrecked on Start Point, Sanday Island, Orkney on 1915-02-18, and subsequently broken for scrap in April 1919.

Salcombe Lifeboat Station

Four years later Distin was himself awarded a bronze medal when, on 4 December 1943, he rescued eleven people from a salvage craft off Start Point.

Sanday, Orkney

Stuart Christie (b. 1946), Glasgow Anarchist, who ran the radical publishing house Cienfuegos Press from here during the late 1970s.

George Faulknor Francis Horwood (1838–1897), Deputy Lieutenant of Orkney (and youngest son of Edward Horwood, of Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire) who lived at Scar House.


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