Welcome to Walking - The Seaside

Coast is something Britain excels at, in both quantity and quality. The shoreline of the mainland alone stretches 11,073 miles, without taking into account all the islands, islets and skerries speckled out to sea, and none of us lives more than 70 miles from the waves. The west coast tends to be craggier, its rock frayed to cove and cliff by Atlantic rollers; the east tends to long beaches and wild expanses of saltmarsh. And whatever kind of coastal walk you dream about, you can find it here. White shell beaches caressed by turquoise sea? Try the Isles of Scilly or Luskentyre in the Outer Hebrides. Strands of gold that stretch for miles and heap into dunes? Head to Holkham Bay in Norfolk, or Saunton Sands in Devon. High fractured cliffs rattled by thundering waves? You’ll find those in Wales’ far west, in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Shingle spits so strange they seem like places from another world? Crunch your way along Dungeness in Kent or Orford Ness in Suffolk. Epic headlands that take you far out into the waves? Clamber along Worms Head (tide permitting!) on
Wales’ Gower Peninsula. White cliffs, secret coves, rock arches? Yes, yes and yes - the Seven Sisters in Sussex, numerous hidden bays along the wiggly Cornish coast, Durdle Door in Dorset. We could go on (and on)...