6-527: Start Point or Start point may refer to: Promontories [ edit ] Start Point, Devon , near Dartmouth on the south coast of Devon, England Start Point, Cornwall , near Tintagel on the north coast of Cornwall, England Start Point, Livingston Island on Livingston Island, Antarctica Start Point, Sanday , in the Orkney Islands, Scotland Other uses [ edit ] Start point (yeast) ,
12-534: A popular spot for visitors, and Start Point is accessible to walkers from the South West Coast Path . The Start Point transmitting station is located on top of the promontory, just north-west of the lighthouse. Built in 1939, it nowadays transmits only a single broadcast, BBC Radio 5 Live . This Devon location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . South West Coast Path Too Many Requests If you report this error to
18-561: Is a promontory in the South Hams district in Devon , England , grid reference SX832370 . Close to the most southerly point in the county, it marks the southern limit of Start Bay , which extends northwards to the estuary of the River Dart . The rocks of the point are greenschist and mica - schist , formed by metamorphism of Devonian sediments during a period of mountain building towards
24-472: The end of the Carboniferous period. The name "Start" derives from an Anglo-Saxon word steort , meaning a tail. This root also appears in the names of birds with distinctive tails, like the redstart . As a result of the many shipwrecks in the area, Start Point lighthouse was built in 1836 to alert ships to the danger of the point and its surrounding rocks. The lighthouse and the area's birdlife make it
30-448: The point in the cell-division cycle of yeast when cells are committed to division Restriction point , also known as the start point, in cells See also [ edit ] Starting Point (disambiguation) Midpoint (disambiguation) Endpoint (disambiguation) Start (disambiguation) Point (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
36-472: The title Start Point . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Start_Point&oldid=1080994441 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Start Point, Devon Start Point
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