Boldon Pastures

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

2.7 km E · spans 24 counties

Opened near Sunderland in 1871 as the world's first lighthouse purpose-built to use alternating electric current, its red-and-white bands now cared for by the National Trust.

3.8 km NE

Great sea-stack of magnesian limestone standing off Marsden Bay, loud with nesting kittiwakes and cormorants.

3.9 km NE

Two and a half miles of clifftop grassland and limestone stacks along the coast from South Shields to Souter.

3.9 km NE

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

4.6 km SE

Hundred acres of wetland, wood and meadow on the Wear, home to wild birds, flamingos and otters.

7.3 km SW