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Close to the point where the cliffs begin to rise from the beach at Southwold is the Sailor's Reading Room.

Standing majestically atop the White Cliffs, this fortress is known as the 'guardian of the gateway to England'. It was an important Iron Age site, and the Anglo-Saxons built the original structure.

This view looks eastwards along a mile of National Trust cliffs towards the coastguard cottages on the 495ft summit of White Nothe (top left), which are the highest buildings on the Dorset

Sometimes called Cliffe at Hoo, the area is known today for its Portland cement works and chalk quarries.

This view shows Carbis Bay when it was still largely undeveloped, with just a scattering of houses above the cliffs overlooking the sandy beach.

Rows of bathing machines along the shoreline and in front of the low white cliffs demonstrate the popularity, and prevailing prudery, of immersion in sea-water among the Victorian visitors.

The strange colours, white and red, of the cliffs around the town give a striking effect when the sun falls upon them. They are notoriously crumbly, and rock falls are common.

The Royal Victoria Pavilion, which stands close to the sands below the East Cliff, opened in 1904, and is pictured here when it was nearly new.

Seaton is Devon's easternmost resort, with only a few miles of rugged cliffs and landslips separating the town from neighbouring Dorset.

By this date the area had expanded southwards, no longer impeded by the dingle, with a bridge facilitating an extension of the parkland towards Cliff Road.

Shakespeare's Cliff commands a broad view of the shores of France.

This little village stands on the edge of a cove in the chalk cliffs of South Foreland, where the road drops steeply down to St Margaret's Bay; it clusters around an impressive Norman church, built around

A scattering of mansions, cottages, and odds and ends of streets nestling beneath a limestone cliff or half hidden away among wooded slopes, this tiny Torquay of Lancashire has, as yet, escaped the notice

Looking beyond Castle Hill, we see the cliffs around Beer in the distance. This open plain of sea front has since been divided by the sea wall and a modern motor road.

The building on the cliff in the distance was erected as two houses in the 1890s and converted by a millionaire to a single dwelling in 1915.

The view is north-eastwards along Marine Parade, to Madeira Cottages, Pyne House and the Assembly Rooms, with the cliffs of Cain's Folly in the distance (far right).

Allotment gardens on the cliff top and behind Redbrink Terrace were an essential part of everyday life and were extensively used by local residents in the 1920s to feed their families.

On the right of the picture the unique tall weatherboarded net stores cluster beneath East Cliff. The three-storied sheds date from Tudor times, and today are a major attraction.

Between Whitstable and Herne Bay, this modern residential suburb and resort, with its grassy cliff-top promenade and shingle beach, was developed mainly in the years following the Second World War.

Past Cliveden is one of the most beautiful stretches of the Thames with its tree-clad river cliffs.

The cliff pathway in the distance is the start of a scenic walk to Cromer, some three miles away.

Disturbed water at the cliff base indicates the power and force of the seas as they surge into the bay and crash against the beach.

Lobster pots dry in the fresh air outside one of the tiny cottages that cling to the dramatic cliff swooping down to the sea. Coastal erosion is a constant peril around Runswick bay.

The rock for these was blasted out of the cliff, 800 tons being required for each linear foot! The scheme for this was initiated in 1846 but was delayed due to the Irish famine.