Church Ope Cove

630 miles around England's toe — the longest and most demanding of the National Trails.

here · spans 4 counties

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

0.2 km N · spans 24 counties

A red-and-white tower marks the tip of Portland's long limestone finger, warning ships off the fierce tidal race that boils around the Bill.

3.3 km SW

Beach-shack seafood restaurant on Chesil Beach beside its own oyster beds.

6.2 km NW

Dorset's "Isle" of Purbeck, a peninsula of chalk and limestone on the Jurassic Coast, with sea stacks, quarried stone and a ruined castle

9.6 km N

Chalk ridges, quiet combes and one of the finest coastlines in England, from Lyme Bay to Purbeck

9.7 km NW