Heritage Coasts
We are attempting to list all places where
photographers can photograph our Heritage Coasts within the UK.
There are 32 protected Heritage Coasts in England and this accounts for about
33% of England’s coastline. Under this scheme the designated coastlines are
conserved as Heritage Coasts. They are coastlines which are managed to
protect their natural beauty and where appropriate to allow access for
visitors. The first Heritage Coastline was the chalk cliffs of Beachy Head
in Sussex and the latest to be added was the Durham Coastline in 2001. Some
of the coastline that has been protected such as Flamborough Head and
Bempton Cliffs, have been so as to protect their seabird colonies.
Most of them are a part of a National Park or an Area of Outstanding Natural
Beauty and for this reason they are not legally protected but have been
defined by agreement of the relevant maritime local authorities and Natural
England.
Most of them are accessible by a network of public footpaths and bridleways
and some are designated as
National Trails.
To find a walk that may involve part of our coast or runs through one of
these Heritage Coasts take a look at our
Walks Section.
As well as protecting a
specific section of our coastline, there are also many items of interest
such as heritage buildings situated along many of them. For example a tool
which mariners have used for hundreds of years to make sure they don't run
into our coast or get themselves into a wreck situation are Lighthouses, and
we have over 250 detailed within our
Lighthouse Section.
Some of those listed below are on some of the many Islands we have around
our coast, check out our
Islands Section
for more.
Where the names in the first column is hyperlinked
this links to a Location page with more information on this
site and over time more of these will be added, we will be delighted if some of
you would like to also produce location pages.
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