The Seaside: England's Love Affair Interest_Time dating back more than 400

dating back more than 400 years

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Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day

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The Seaside: England's Love Affair Interest_Time dating back more than 400England's seaside is made up of a striking variety of coastlines including cliffs, coves, pebbled shore, wide sandy beaches, salt marshes, and estuaries cutting deep inland. On these coastal edges England's great holiday resorts grew up, developed in the early eighteenth century originally as spas for medicinal bathing but soon morphing into places of pleasure, entertainment, fantasy and adventure. Acclaimed writer Madeleine Bunting journeyed