Inchcape, also known as the Bell Rock, is a reef about 11 miles off the coast of Angus, Scotland, near Dundee and Fife, formed of Old Red Sandstone and measuring roughly 427 feet long and 230 feet wide. It is occupied by the Bell Rock Lighthouse, built between 1807 and 1810. Its name may derive from the Scottish Gaelic Innis Sgeap, meaning beehive isle, though it is also associated with a fourteenth century legend of a warning bell placed on the reef by the Abbot of Arbroath, later retold in Robert Southey's 1802 poem.
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Inchcape or the Bell Rock is a reef about 11 miles (18 km) off the east coast of Angus, Scotland, near Dundee and Fife, occupied by the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
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