What's the difference between backshore and foreshore?

Backshore


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Foreshore


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  • (1) The sheep in this almost feral flock have access to a small area of unmanaged moorland pasture but are otherwise restricted to the foreshore where they subsist largely on Laminaria spp.
  • (2) Woodstock Beach in the 1940s, before it was destroyed by land reclamation that extended Cape Town’s foreshore “As racial segregation and institutional inequalities became locked in to the country’s urban landscapes through the formalisation of the apartheid legal codes, Woodstock crucially fell outside of the large-scale implementation of the Group Areas Act ,” wrote Andrew Fleming in his 2011 dissertation Making a Place for the Rich?
  • (3) But the boy who bypassed industrial foreshores to find a local forest for his own special experience has become a prime minister with no worries about issuing a death warrant against distant pristine forests which he has never seen.
  • (4) A common feature of this outbreak and a similar occurrence 24 years previously was the grazing of plants growing on the exposed silt foreshores of Burrinjuck Dam by ewes and cows in the early stages of pregnancy.
  • (5) A fortnight ago the Crown Estate launched local management agreements designed to give more power to communities over their estuaries, foreshore and harbours.
  • (6) • Near Ventnor (01983 730052, blackgangchine.com ); 10-6pm, over-fours £9.95, concessions £7.95, saver for four people £37.50 Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, Lincolnshire The mile-long miniature railway at Cleethorpes runs from Kingsway station along the sea-sprayed foreshore to North Sea Lane station.
  • (7) This is the foreshore walk, looking away from the Pier in the direction of Tower Esplanade, shortly before 7pm; about 40 minutes before high tide.
  • (8) They underline how unearned wealth in London flows down from the glens and foreshore, that loom large in the nationalist imagination.
  • (9) The foreshore is rocky, so a series of square pools have been cut into them, with ladders and steps into the water.
  • (10) The video was taken looking southwards along what is normally a foreshore footpath.
  • (11) One of the first accounts came from Charles Darwin when, midway through his Beagle voyage along the Patagonian archipelago, he witnessed a great earthquake thrust the coastline of Chile a few metres upwards, stranding vast foreshores high and dry.
  • (12) The Guardian broke the news at 12.45pm, saying that when the tide came out at 4pm on the Kent foreshore there was free gold and it was finders keepers.
  • (13) We continued down a steep slope that ended on the foreshore.

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