Greatwood and Cliff Copses

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

1.4 km SE · spans 24 counties

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

1.7 km NE · Isle of Wight

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

2.4 km S · 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

2.5 km W

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

4.2 km NW · Isle of Wight

Octagonal medieval tower on St Catherine's Down, nicknamed the Pepperpot, built as penance by a local lord who had looted wine from a wreck.

7.9 km W