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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 -

Mappleton going south

Conservation status – Sea defences are a RIGS for their educational value

Parking – free cliff top car park (slowly eroding) or on street

Facilities – public toilets (which will eventually fall into the sea)

Access – gentle ramp

Beach – sand and pebbles; occasionally clay

Hazards – unexploded ordnance

Escape routes - none

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

Geological highlights – sea defences including pegmatites, augen gneiss and folded gneiss. Till and glacial erratics. Study of coastal erosion.

Other interests there or nearby – cobble built church in village

pegmatite at Mappleton RIGS

Pegmatite at Mappleton RIGS

Schist at Mappleton RIGS

  Schist at Mappleton RIGS

 

  

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