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Disclaimer – details about parking and facilities may have changes since the author last visited these sites.

Note all sites are best visited on a falling tide. For some the tide is critical either to view the site or to avoid getting stranded. You are recommended to wear a hard hat when examining cliffs.

Summary -

Danes Dyke

Conservation status – SSSI and Marine No Take Zone going to Sewerby Steps (you are not allowed to remove any living organisms including pebbles with attached barnacles or sea weed).

Parking – Pay and display at Danes Dyke country park

Facilities – small café and toilets

Access – steep gravel path to beach.

Beach – sand, pebbles, boulders and wave cut platform

Hazards – wave cut platform can be slippery.

Escape routes – South Landing or Sewerby or climb a rockfall and wait for tide to fall

Safety and PPE – hard hat and sensible clothes. Sensible footwear.

Geological highlights – Flamborough formation, zone boundary between Marsupites and I. lingua zones, pre-glacial valley fill, glacial till, erratics,.

Other interests there or nearby – The Danes Dyke earthworks

 

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