Cornwall
The Atlantic-battered North Cornish Coast is for most of us a classic coast. Cliffs, inlets, coves, stacks, reefs.... a different face as the rock changes.
Dorset
Purbeck ranges from the creeks and flats of Poole Harbour to Studland's superb white sands, climbing to a spectacular series of chalk and limestone cliffs.
Durham
Until recently the Durham Coast was one of the most heavily polluted coastlines in Britain, a legacy from over a hundred years of dumping colliery waste from its six coal mines along the beaches.
Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site (East Devon)
Sandstone cliffs back the pebble beaches, their vivid Devon red startlingly broken by the white chalk headland at Beer, where boats land crab and lobster but no longer contraband.
Exmoor
Steep wooded 'combes' cut down to the shore, and where oak woods have grown down the cliffs, woodland and seashore life share a rare coexistence on the pebble beaches.
Flamborough Headland
To the north are probably the finest line of chalk cliffs in the country, rising, at Bempton, to 130 metres, and home to our only mainland gannet colony.
Hamstead/Tennyson
Within a small island, the contrasting landscapes of two very different Heritage Coasts.
Hartland
Hartland with its Devon (37km) and Cornwall (11km) sections, is perhaps the wildest of all Heritage Coasts.
Isles of Scilly
This scattering of tiny granite islands 45 km off Land's End is the smallest of all the Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) with the heritage coast stretching around the complete archipelago.
Lundy
England's first Marine Nature Reserve, Lundy Island is a massive granite island with rugged 400 feet cliffs, accommodating important seabird colonies.
North Devon
Sand and sand dunes, open-cliffed headlands, softer wooded cliffs and several villages characterise this fine coastline.
North Norfolk
The marshland coast between Holme next the Sea and Weybourne is the finest of its kind in these islands and probably in Europe.
North Northumberland
ancient rocks, meeting the sea in low headland and rocky havens, give a dramatic setting to Bamburgh and Dunstanburgh Castles, and shelter fishing ports such as Craster.
North Yorkshire and Cleveland
This is one of Britain's richest mineral and fossil coasts. Jet and coiled ammonites lie on the beaches.
South Devon
The South West Coast Path National Trail running along the whole stretch of heritage coast provides access to spectacular scenery and long views across bays and the English Channel.
South Foreland and Dover – Folkestone
Who hasn't heard of the White Cliffs of Dover? Here, where the North Downs meet the sea, are those vertical chalk cliffs.
Spurn Head
As an SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest), geomorphologists monitor its changing shape and, in spring and autumn, migrating birds pause here in their thousands, attracting visitors to the bird observatory.
St Bees Head
This red sandstone headland, with its sheer, fissured cliffs and gem-strewn beach, is the most conspicuous natural feature on the entire west coast between North Wales and Scotland.
Suffolk
The sea is always at work here - all but destroying medieval Dunwich, yet building the great shingle spit of Orford Ness.
Sussex
The chalk landscape of the South Downs reaches its easternmost end here, terminating in the impressive sea cliffs of Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters.
