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Finding Out More

 
Giants Causeway
Giants Causeway

Get closer to the coast

Sample one (or more) of the 39 walks designed to show you the best of UK's coastline. Get all the details you need - and find out about some exclusive mobile content - with Coast Where I Live.

Beating the boundaries

The natural soundtrack of crashing waves and gulls has long proved an inspiration to composers scoring the shoreline.

Teeming with life

Rock pools and wet sand provide support and cover for any number of creatures and plants. Discover life on the beach.

If your interest in the many aspects of our relationship with the seas has been raised by the website, it doesn't have to stop when you surf away.

Find out how your actions might shape the coast of tomorrow with our postcards from the future.

Explore more by following some of our courses links, or dig deeper into the Natural History of these islands.

Get out and see some of the places the series visited for yourself - for thirty-nine coastal walks from around the UK, try the Coast Where I Live sites.

You can discover more about the defence of Britain during the second world war with the People's War site, and unravel the causes and effects of the floods of 1953.

Content last updated: 08/07/2005

 
 
 

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