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Nearby, Minnis Rock Hermitage has three rock cells cut out of a sandstone cliff face; it is well conserved.

As with several other fishing villages along the Yorkshire coast, Staithes clings alpine-like to the sides of steep cliffs and ravines.

It has quaint streets, a promenade, cliffs and a harbour, together with a fine old church.

Regarded as a defensive liability, it was fortified in about 1500 with a wall and towers, one of which can be seen overhung with ivy above the cliffs.

Bridport haven, an estuary under East Cliff, became Bridport Harbour as we know it in the 18th century, with the final layout taking shape in 1824.

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.

Then building began in earnest as visitors flocked to enjoy its safe, sandy beach and bracing cliff-top walks.

It can be appreciated from this photograph how the bleak area of beach and pools resulted from the infilling of the bay by silt and sand from the china clay industry; the old cliff line

The old road follows the line of the ridge and the beach was once occasionally used to load coal onto boats at high tide from the nearby Trefân Cliff Colliery.

It is somewhat ironic that the site along the west cliff where the holiday developments were planned became this caravan site.

Here we have a good view of the tram track near Palm Court at the Cavendish Road stop on the high cliffs (a lift was available to convey visitors to the shore and the Promenade).

East of Gainsborough the Market Rasen road climbs the Lincoln Cliff, the limestone ridge which runs due north from Lincoln at about two hundred feet above sea level.

Here, a family group takes the opportunity to admire the view over the Spa Cliff.

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.

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

It has quaint streets, a promenade, cliffs and a harbour, together with a fine old church.

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

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.

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

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

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

The strange colours, white and red, of the cliffs around the town give a striking effect when the sun falls upon them.

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.