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From prehistory, the Lincolnshire coast was an important centre for the production of salt. At its peak in the 1950s, Grimsby was the largest and busiest fishing port in the world. In 1953, a storm tide overwhelmed Lincolnshire's sea defences, and the county was flooded as far inland as Alford. More than 300 people were killed in Lincolnshire ...
However, with the passing of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, section 298 instructed Natural England to create a holistic Coastal Path. [3] The first section, along Weymouth Bay, opened in 2012. [4] The path is the longest Coastal Path in the world, with it being even longer if including the Wales Coast Path.
The South West Coast Path starts from the western side of Minehead, in Somerset, at a marker erected in 2001 and partly paid for by the South West Coast Path Association. [21] The path follows the waterfront past the harbour to Culver Cliff before climbing up on a zigzag path through woodland. [ 22 ]
It is estimated that around 3 million people (out of 60 million) live on the coast of the UK. The place furthest from the coast is Coton in the Elms in Derbyshire, which is equidistant from Fosdyke Wash in Lincolnshire; White Sands between Neston in Cheshire and Flint, Flintshire in Wales; and Westbury-on-Severn Gloucestershire. [7] [8]
A Prospect of Lincolnshire (Lincoln: privately published, 1984), pp. 46–49. Pawley, Simon, "Lincolnshire Coastal Villages and the Sea c. 1300–c. 1600: Economy and Society" (PhD thesis, University of Leicester, 1984). Robinson, David N., The Book of the Lincolnshire Seaside: The Story of the Coastline from the Humber to the Wash (Barracuda ...
For the purposed of a general geographical classification the county can be broken down into a number of sub-regions: The Lincolnshire coast.; Lincolnshire Fens: a region of flat, marshy land (much of it reclaimed from the sea) that predominates in the southern and south-eastern areas of the county (most particularly around the local towns of Boston and Spalding and extending around The Wash ...
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The Lincolnshire Wolds which also includes the Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape are a range of low hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England which runs roughly parallel with the North Sea coast, from the Humber Estuary just west of the town of Barton-upon-Humber in North Lincolnshire down in a south easterly direction towards the flat Lincolnshire Fens in the south-east of the county ...