Ancient bridleway down to the beach

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Ancient bridleway down to the beach by John Haynes as part of the Geograph project.

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Ancient bridleway down to the beach

Image: © John Haynes Taken: 16 May 2012

If you imagine the days before the coast road and the railway this bridleway provided direct access to the beach and would have been used to bring seaweed up to the grazings and farm gardens to act as a fertiliser.

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.669292
Longitude
-4.077741