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Above the cliffs we can just see the Park Hotel, built as a terrace of three houses, part of a larger development of North Cliff which never materialised.

The South Cliff Tramway offered an alternative means of escape from the beach to the Esplanade; the other way up was by the 224 steps cutting through the Spa Gardens.

The picture, at low tide, looks northwards to Ozone Terrace, the Lifeboat Station (centre), the Coastguard Station and the Bonded Store, and along to the end of Cobb hamlet at Cobb Cliff (centre

In the middle distance are coastguard cottages which are no longer there, for these sandstone cliffs are notoriously crumbly and prone to erosion.

In the distance are the turrets not of the castle, but of the Cliff Railway which carried visitors to the top of East Cliff, the sandstone bluffs that hem in the east end of the town.

At the eastern extremity of the South Downs, the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse at the foot of Beachy Head warned shipping of the hazards of the chalk cliffs, which now lie under the sea.

Poorly compacted, and composed of glacial drift, the cliffs of the north Norfolk coast have been compared to 'dirty tallow', being unstable and liable to erosion.

Not only is the photographer on the cliff top taking a picture of his ladies with the lens into the sun, he is at great risk of losing his and their lives by going near the edge of these dangerous cliffs

Here we have a closer view of the wall and walk built from the cliff opposite, encompassing the ground later laid out as gardens, and earlier as a swimming pool, by the Pegwell Bay Reclamation

A mile east of the Culham Science Centre we reach the charming village of Clifton Hampden on its tree-covered cliff by the River Thames.

Henry Pease was said to have had a vision of 'a town arisen on the edge of a cliff'. He was then instrumental in founding 'New' Saltburn on the top of the cliff in 1861.

Jet mining was a large industry here, and involved cutting into the cliff. Craftsmen turned jet into beautiful ornaments and jewellery.

The picturesque cliffs, coves, glens and wooded scenery that surround Hastings appealed to the Romantic tastes of the years after 1800.

The church of St Winwalloe is hidden below the cliffs in the foreground.

Cliffe Hill Street 1894 Cliffe, across the River Ouse, still has a very separate feel to Lewes up the hill.

Here we see National Trust shingle and cliffs at the end of Beach Road, with the buildings (top right) comprising the Burton Cliff Hotel.

Originally a rough roadway through the cliffs to the beach known as Cart Gap, the Gangway was constructed in concrete in 1898 by Steward & Patteson brewery, the owners of the Ship Hotel.

This splendid view of the site of the former cliff-top fort was taken prior to the extension of the cliff-foot promenade.The terrace of houses in the centre of the picture, Fort Paragon, was constructed

The sappers were right, and a mine exploded beside crumbling cliffs near the Grand Hotel (centre), killing five schoolboys on Friday 13 May 1955.

Perched at the cliff top, the castle-like structure belongs to the East Cliff Railway.

At the eastern extremity of the South Downs, the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse at the foot of Beachy Head warned shipping of the hazards of the chalk cliffs, which now lie under the sea.

Gun Cliff and Church Cliffs complete the town's seascape. Timber Hill rises above.

As we walk around the village it is not at all apparent why it should be named Cleeve or 'cliff'; but in fact the village sits just a short distance away from a steep 200ft cliff overlooking

The problem was its proximity to the cliff edge. Concerns were aroused after a number of incidents where bowls fell over the cliff and narrowly missed people on the beach below.