Sunderland Point is the only mainland settlement in Britain cut off by the tide twice a day - the single road across the marsh from Overton floods at high water, so check the tide tables before you drive out. This tiny former port once handled cotton and, by tradition, saw the first bale land in the region. On the shore lies Sambo’s Grave, the resting place of an enslaved boy who died here in 1736, still tended with flowers. Heysham Port station is about 5km away.
