Durham

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

adjoining · spans 24 counties

Sea-glass beach and the 'Tommy' war statue.

0.4 km NW

The largest ancient woodland in north-east England, a deep wooded ravine running down to the coast at Horden.

0.8 km S

Ray Lonsdale's weathered-steel First World War soldier sitting on Seaham seafront, head bowed.

1.3 km NW

Long curving Victorian breakwater at Sunderland with a red-and-white lighthouse and a hidden tunnel beneath.

4 km N

Reconstructed Georgian seaport on the marina, centred on HMS Trincomalee, Europe's oldest floating warship.

4.4 km SE