Access Ramp, Collywell Bay, Seaton Sluice
Introduction
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Access Ramp, Collywell Bay, Seaton Sluice
Image: © Geoff Holland Taken: 11 Aug 2020
This ramp gives access to and egress from the pebble beach named on the 1865 first edition of the Ordnance Survey Six-Inch map of the area as 'Collywell Sands' after the well which stood here called (unsurprisingly), 'Colly Well'. It also gives access to Charley's Garden https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6567417 an isolated sandstone stack which acquired its name from a local villager, Mr Charles Dockwray, who had cultivated a cliff-top garden prior to the sea eroding the rocks between the garden and the mainland and thus separating them for ever more. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk
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Image Location
Latitude
55.082246
Longitude
-1.470828