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The village is at the north end of a magnificent two-mile long sandy beach. Until the 1800s this stretch of coast was remote, its splendours familiar only to Ilfracombe fishermen.

The end of the next house is made up of alternate courses of brick and beach pebbles. Further on is a row of Victorian terraced cottages, with dormer and bay windows.

A mixture of near-derelict and beached craft gives this working slipway an untidy appearance that will certainly have been at odds with the fact that the majority of the boats represented someone's

Built close to both the railway station and beach, it quickly became a successful family hotel.

Cars, motorbikes and sidecars are parked on the beach, whilst their owners clamber over the rocks or paddle in the sea.

A path leads from the tiny village across the fields to low cliffs above this quiet beach.

The beach huts of curiously railway style have long gone and are now replaced by modern toilets, but the fine views of the chalk cliffs remain.

Most visitors come to take in the little glen and wishing well, though the hills around offer extensive views over Dorchester and Chesil Beach.

The coastline is still being eroded, and as each winter storm breaches the vulnerable unprotected beach, the sea threatens to make Selsey an island again.

'Pwllheli possesses perhaps the finest sandy beach in Wales', says the late Victorian guidebook, 'and the sanitary arrangements are all that could be desired'.

It is possible to reach the Glen Beach from just below the row of houses.

Here, we see sailing barges beached on the far shore.

Here a little Victorian girl poses among the rowing boats laid up on the beach.

The thatched mill house is deep in the valley about half a mile inland from the beach at Duckpool, and there is just a glimpse of the coast in this view.

Weymouth's beach has gently sloping sands and is mostly sheltered from the storms and swells of the English Channel, making it suitable for the youngest and most inexperienced of bathers.

Away from the bright lights and entertainments of its main resorts, Lancashire's coast has many other fine stretches of expansive beach.

Barricane Beach is behind the camera, and we see the broad expanse of Woolacombe sands stretching away south towards Croyde.

Beach facilities comprise clusters of bathing tents and unfolded wood and canvas deckchairs.

This photograph shows Marine Parade and its beach- tents, between Langmoor Gardens (top left) and the 1922-built Bay Private Hotel (centre).

As larger harbours were built, both Swanbridge and Sully ceased to be used as ports, but with the advent of cheap rail travel they became holiday beaches for day trippers from Cardiff and the surrounding

Beach vendors stands are offering tea, crisps and toffee apples. In the centre, in line with the Marine Hotel, a hut carries the sign 'Lost Children' - always a possibility at the seaside!

Par Beach is seen at low tide with the china clay port of Par in the background.

The beach at Charmouth is a mecca for geologists and fossil hunters, and explanatory walks take place from the heritage centre by the mouth of the Char.

A magician entertains a crowd of well dressed Victorian holidaymakers on the beach.