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signal station on Round Down, was a series of shipwrecks which culminated with the loss of the 1,250-ton Liverpool sailing ship 'Alexandrovna' with her crew of 77, on Ragged Rocks below the western cliff

The view looks westwards from the foothills of Ridge Cliff to Seatown hamlet (centre left) and Mill House and Mill Lane (lower right), which was concrete-covered in the Second World War to enable the large-scale

The view is northwards to the Old Boathouse in the Square, and the Assembly Rooms beside Bell Cliff at the bottom of Broad Street, which were pulled down in 1928.

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

On the left is the cliff-like Dynevor House, with 1725 on the rainwater hopper-heads, three storeys of box sashes and a corniced parapet.

We are looking inland north-eastwards from what is now National Trust land above Burton Cliff, over the Dove Inn and Southover (foreground) to the meadows of the River Bride (centre).

At the base of the cliff, the buildings include the one belonging to the boat builders Kelpie Boat Services.

The journey to Studland Bay was probably the favourite excursion for tourists from Swanage, who could either get there by walking along the cliff tops or by taking a carriage or charabanc along the

On the breezy cliff, fine pleasure grounds have been laid out. The Windsor Gardens, above the esplanade, afford pleasant walks and views.

in south-west England.The gorge cuts its way out of the carboniferous limestone as if it was in the Peak District of Derbyshire; it is an underground cavern whose roof has collapsed, leaving soaring cliffs

Clovelly clings to a cliff, and its street is a steep, cobbled flight of steps. Villagers still use donkeys and sleds to carry goods to and from their cottages and the tiny harbour far below.

This road up from the beach was first started at the time that George Hudson bought the West Cliff Estate in the 1850s, and it got the name from the strategic pass important in the Afghan wars, which

The cliff walk now forms part of the South West Coast Path, the national trail which winds around the West Country peninsula.

trouble to find out some charming seaside village in which he may dream out his few brief weeks of leisure in ineffable content and rest, soothed by the ever-present, placid sea, the rugged, flower-clad cliffs

Since the opening of the railway, Swanage has vastly increased in favour as a watering-place; it is situated in a beautiful bay, and commands a glorious prospect of down and sea and cliff.

Rottingdean, the valley of Rota's people, is cut off from its vast neighbour, Brighton, by steep chalk downs and sea cliffs.

Red-tiled cottages are squeezed into narrow passages that rise dramatically from seashore to cliff top.

A rough sea is coming onto the beach, but the pier affords protection to the dangerously narrow harbour entrance beneath the cliffs.

Nearby, Minnis Rock Hermitage has three rock cells cut out of a sandstone cliff face; it is well conserved. The whole area is now much more developed with housing.

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 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).

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 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 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.