Category: Classic Coast
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Where is your favourite “Classic Coast”?
To celebrate 60 years of the National Trust’s Neptune Coastal Conservation Campaign we invite readers to send us their favourite coastal spots. These could be areas of natural beauty but also your favourite beach, harbour… […]
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Seven Sisters and Beachy Head
Often, ‘Classic Coast’ consists of the built environment – man-made harbours, houses and hostelries. But occasionally the landscape itself commands attention and nowhere is this more true than the length of Sussex coast known as… […]
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A gallery of the Armada progressing in ten charts
Ten incredibly rare chart drawings that show in stages the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, a defining moment in the creation of England’s maritime identity, have been saved from export in January 2021 […]
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West Anglesey
Following on from Classic Coast at Porthdinllaen in the April/May 2017 issue (it really is an idyllic place though I wouldn’t have described the Ty Coch as a gastro pub; didn’t do food in the… […]
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Royal Plymouth Corinthian Yacht Clubhouse for sale
With stunning views over Plymouth Sound the Royal Plymouth Corinthian YC’s clubhouse has to be one of the most distinct addresses in the city. The building dates back to 1688, a hundred years after the… […]
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Portsmouth Point
Portsmouth Point is the spit of land to starboard as you sail through the narrow bottleneck into Portsmouth Harbour from the Solent. It’s chock full of history, much of it disreputable since it was largely… […]
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The Lleyn Peninsula
As he gazed at a map of Britain the bored schoolboy could imagine a kind of seated, turbanned figure looking west about to draw on a poster – Ireland. We could even see that he… […]
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The Fal River
It was Easter, but bitterly cold, so we had the river pretty much to ourselves and it was like being back in the 19th or even (for Poldark fans) the 18th century.We were aboard Luke… […]
