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Places to see in ( Birchington - UK )

Places to see in ( Birchington - UK )

Birchington-on-Sea is a village in north east Kent, England, with a population of around 10,000. It is part of the Thanet district and forms part of the civil parish of Birchington. It lies on the coast facing the North Sea, east of the Thames Estuary, between the seaside resorts of Herne Bay and Margate. As a seaside resort, the village is a tourist and retirement destination. The village's Minnis Bay is a family beach with attractions such as sailing, windsurfing, a paddling pool and coastal walking routes. Its three smaller beaches are surrounded by chalk cliffs, cliff stacks and caves.

The village was first recorded in 1240. Its parish church, All Saints', dates to the 13th century and its churchyard is the burial place of the 19th century Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Quex Park, a local 19th century manor house, is home to the Powell-Cotton Museum and a twelve bell tower built for change ringing. The museum contains a large collection of stuffed exotic animals collected by Major Percy Powell-Cotton on his travels in Africa, and also houses artefacts unearthed in and around Birchington by his daughter, Antoinette Powell-Cotton, a keen archaeologist.

Birchington was first recorded in 1240 as Birchenton, a name derived from the Old English words 'bircen tun', meaning a farm where birch trees grow. Birchington-on-Sea is located in northeast Kent, on the coast of the Thames Estuary. The village is 14 kilometres (9 mi) to the east of Herne Bay and 6 kilometres (4 mi) to the west of Margate. The small town of Westgate-on-Sea lies between Birchington and Margate.

Minnis Bay is a popular family beach with attractions such as sailing, windsurfing, cafes, beach huts, public houses, restaurants, a paddling pool and coastal walking/cycling routes. The beach has gained a European Blue Flag Award for its cleanliness and safety. The village has three other smaller beaches, which are surrounded by chalk cliffs and cliff stacks. Wildlife that can be observed in the Thames Estuary includes seals, velvet swimming crabs and the migrant turnstone.

Paintings by local artists are displayed at the David Burley Gallery in Birchington Library. Community activities take place at the Birchington Village Centre, including adult education classes, drama productions by the Birchington Guild of Players and concerts by the Birchington Silver Band. In 1989, Birchington-on-Sea was twinned with the town of La Chapelle d'Armentieres, near Lille in northern France; Birchington Twinning Association arranges events between the two communities, such as school trips, concerts and war remembrance services. Since 1932, Birchington has held a street carnival each summer.

Birchington-on-Sea railway station is on the Chatham Main Line which runs between Ramsgate in East Kent and London Victoria. Other stations on this line include Broadstairs, Margate, Herne Bay, Faversham, Gillingham, Chatham, Rochester and Bromley South. Birchington is around 1 hour and 40 minutes from London by Mainline train. A National Express coach service also runs between London Victoria and Ramsgate via Birchington-on-Sea.

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Places to see in ( East Wittering - UK )

Places to see in ( East Wittering - UK )

East Wittering is a coastal village in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. The majority of the village lies within the civil parish of East Wittering and Bracklesham, while the western edge lies within the boundary of West Wittering civil parish. The village sits on the B2179 road 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Chichester, on the Manhood Peninsula.

There has been a settlement at East Wittering for over a thousand years. The Witterings were included in a grant of land to Bishop Wilfrid in the late 7th century. The area is mentioned in the Domesday Book, as part of the Hundred of Westringes (later Manhood). The Witterings together with Sidlesham were rated as 36 hides at the time of Edward the Confessor. For centuries the manor of East Wittering was in the hands of the Wystryng family, who took their name from the place.

The former 12th-century Anglican parish Church of the Assumption of St Mary the Virgin, has been replaced by the more modern St Anne's Church. St Anne's was built in the village centre during the 1950s, and the old church declared redundant in 1983. In Victorian times the RNLI raised enough subscriptions to launch a distress boat from the beach at East Wittering, a role now covered by the Fire Service.

Since then it has returned to a quiet area with a small primary school, popular with week-end surfers. Nikolaus Pevsner described the village as a jumble of bungalows and chalets near the beach in an untidy half grown up state. St Anne's Anglican Church was designed by architect Harry Sherwood who was surveyor of the fabric of Chichester Cathedral.

The whole stretch of Bracklesham Bay is a popular with many surfers. With a low beach gradient and the lack of any obvious dangers such as rips or obstacles it is a great beach for learners and with one of the UK's longest running surf clubs, Shore Surf Club.

East Wittering is most directly reached via A286 road from Chichester to Birdham followed by the B2198 road to Bracklesham before taking the B2179 road. Alternatively the B2179 can be taken in the opposite direction from Birdham for a slightly longer route via West Wittering. The B2179 road skirts the centre of the village which lies on Cakeham Road. East Wittering is served by a high frequency bus service from Chichester and Birdham passing alternatively clockwise and counter-clockwise round the Birdham, Bracklesham, East Wittering and West Wittering road loop formed by the B2198 and B2179 roads.

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Places to see in ( Sutton on Sea - UK )

Places to see in ( Sutton on Sea - UK )

Sutton-on-Sea is a small coastal village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated at the junction of the A52 and A1111 roads, 6 miles north-east from Alford and 2 miles south from Mablethorpe. The village is part of the civil parish of Mablethorpe and Sutton. Village facilities include a post office, public houses, a general store and a hotel, and a paddling pool on the sea front.

At very low tides it is possible to view the remains of an ancient submerged forest on the beaches of Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea. The church, which is a Grade II listed building, is dedicated to Saint Clement. It was built in 1818-19 on a new site after the previous church was destroyed by the sea. The Alford and Sutton Tramway ran from Alford town to Sutton-on-Sea on rails set into the road. It opened in 1884 and closed 5 years later.

Sutton-on-Sea railway station opened as part of the Sutton and Willoughby Railway. It closed on 5 October 1970 by which time it was owned by British Rail. In 1897 the village was the subject of a plan by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway to build a port and harbour at the terminus of its East-West line to Warrington on the Manchester Ship Canal. However, by the time the line reached Lincoln the money had run out and Lincoln remained its terminus.

Sutton on Sea Community Primary School was built in 1862 as a National School, becoming a board school in 1887, and a council school in 1903. It became a primary school in 1964, and has been called the Sutton on Sea Community Primary School since 1999.

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Family day out on the Southend beach

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BEACH SCENES 1935

BEACH SCENES
Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire, UK. 1935

Young children have donkey rides and build a sand castle. Delightful in itself, but chiefly of interest for providing a comparison between almost identical scenes in black & white and the (then) recently introduced Dufaycolor.

Accession no. 629
Total running time 4.75 min - B/W & Dufaycolor - 16mm - Silent
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2017.06.06 Seafront on a windy day at Southwold, Suffolk, UK

Irene an Dave enjoy watching the Northsea at the Southwold Seafront on a windy day.

19 July Wells next the Sea

Hayling Island UK sea front

A very windy but a lovely autumn day!!

Starr Carr Staxton Wold.msdvd

9,000 year old site

Storms Caused Years Of Erosion In A Few Weeks

Coastal beauty spots have suffered years worth of erosion in just a few weeks due to the winter storms that have repeatedly battered the UK.
Cliffs have been left crumbling, beaches and sand dunes eroded, defences breached, and shorelines and harbours damaged by up to 80mph gales and tidal surges.
The National Trust has warned with more extreme weather predicted, the rate of change on the coasts will speed up.
Sky News presenter Jeremy Thompson is flying around some of the worst affected areas in Dorset and Hampshire, as well as the flood-hit parts of Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire and the Thames Valley that have been left saturated by more than six weeks of heavy rainfall.

Over the coast of Hampshire between Boscombe and Bournemouth, he saw evidence of a landslide.
He said: It's very fresh, 20m of the cliff-face has literally fallen away and there's a lot of activity round the base of it at the moment.
Studland Bay has lost up to 10m of its beach this winter. Trees have been left strewn across the beach, footpaths have vanished and beach huts left teetering on the brink.
Speaking to Sky News on the beach, Elli MacDonald from the National Trust said: We've seen up to 10m of erosion just in the last two weeks.
We've had big chunks of chalk come off onto the beach, we've had a fairly significant landslide to the south of the bay, which we've had to cordon off, and some concrete steps are kind of floating in mid-air because of the erosion.
Flooded fields in Longford, Gloucestershire, seen from the Skycopter
Nearby Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, recently voted Britain's favourite nature reserve, has also lost several metres of coast.
Head ranger Reuben Hawkwood said: Our shoreline has been ravaged by the high tides and record breaking winds.
We've lost several metres of coast in some areas, our cliffs are crumbling at an incredible rate and it has broken through some of our remaining sea wall below the castle which has required a very quick fix to prevent it threatening buildings.
The weather has destroyed some of our beach access, washing out steps and eroding cliffs which are frighteningly close to paths.
The speed of erosion at Birling Gap on the East Sussex coast - which marks the start of the white chalk cliffs of the Seven Sisters - has been breathtaking, according to Jane Cecil, National Trust general manager for the South Downs.
Abereiddi in Pembrokeshire, where the sea has been advancing
We've had about seven years of erosion in just two months. As a result of this loss of coastline, we are having to act now and take down the sun lounge and ice cream parlour, safeguarding the integrity of the rest of the building. We have to think long-term, she said.
Other sites affected by the winter storms include Mullion Harbour in Cornwall, Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula, important wildlife sites at Blakeney, Norfolk, and Orford Ness, Suffolk, Murlough national nature reserve in Northern Ireland and Formby, on the Sefton coast in Merseyside.
The National Trust, which owns more than 740 miles of coastline around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, has called for more long-term planning to minimise the impact of the changing climate.
We're expecting more extremes, less predictability, more stormy events, combined with an underlying issue of rising sea levels, he said.

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Part 1: Daisy Cooper looks into coastal erosion in Southwold

Found very good hill to DX at Abersoch FM radio band scan with Irish stations in North Wales

May 2017

Found very good hill to DX at Abersoch FM radio band scan with Irish stations in North Wales.

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Coastguards come to rescue of angler trapped on cliff in Newquay

An angler trapped on cliffs on the Newquay coast by some of the highest tides of the year is rescued.

Waves Crashing, Ramsey

Isle of Man hide Tides.

Ennerdale 1km cycle track, Kingston upon Hull

Under construction:
The soon to be, 1km cycle track at the Ennerdale centre in Kingston upon Hull.