Sandown

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

here · spans 24 counties

Thatched cottages, tea rooms and the Crab Inn at the top of Shanklin Chine, a wooded ravine dropping to the beach

3.8 km SW · Isle of Wight

Harbour village at the island's eastern tip, with houseboats, a windmill from about 1700 and a lifeboat station out over the sea

6 km NE · Isle of Wight

Undercliff village east of Ventnor with an 11th-century church, Swinburne's grave and a pond given by Stacpoole

6.9 km SW · Isle of Wight

The Worsley family's grand 18th-century house on the Isle of Wight, now a roofless shell after scandal, sale and a wartime mine

7.2 km SW

Thatched cottages round a hilltop church with a rare medieval Lily Cross wall painting, and a model village open since 1952

7.7 km W · Isle of Wight