Hunstanton Cliffs

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Red-and-white banded chalk cliffs above the beach.

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Approximate location — this spot is pinned to the nearest village, so the exact point may be a little way off.

The cliffs at Hunstanton are famously striped: a band of white chalk sitting on a red layer — itself chalk, stained by iron — over rust-brown carstone at the base. The colours mark the shift from Early to Late Cretaceous seabed, and the red chalk is thick with fossils. Walk the beach below at low tide or the clifftop above; they stand at the north end of Hunstanton, the resort that faces west across the Wash.

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