Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliff National Nature Reserve

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group. This is a view looking up at the landslide area at the western end of Pinhay Bay, east Devon. The trees are at all sorts of odd angles and some have fallen completely due to the continuing intermittent landslide movements. The top of the landslide scar is seen in this photo: www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024280

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group. This is located next to the South West Coast Path which runs through the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliff National Nature Reserve, a conservation area of international importance. This is an area of extensive landslides which have created a jumble of ridges and chasms, now the location of luxurious woodland and special habitats for plants, birds, insects and other animals. The 'undercliff' is the area between the beach and the back landslide scarp face, which may be as much as 700 metres inland. Mostly this is dense woodland, but occasionally there are more open areas where landslides are still intermittently active, where the larger trees have either been uprooted or have not yet had the chance to mature (as is the case here, viewed from the back scarp face of one of the more recent landslides). Just visible on the distant horizon is the Isle of Portland, far across the other side of Lyme Bay.

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group. This is the remains of the Allhallows (or Rousdon) water pumping station just east of the Dowlands landslide complex, between Seaton, Devon and Lyme Regis, Dorset. It was steam-driven and used to pump water from the undercliff up to the farms and dwellings on the top of the cliff. This is located next to the South West Coast Path which runs through the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliff National Nature Reserve, a conservation area of international importance. This is an area of extensive landslides which have created a jumble of ridges and chasms, now the location of luxurious woodland and special habitats for plants, birds, insects and other animals. The 'undercliff' is the area between the beach and the back landslide scarp face, which may be as much as 700 metres inland.

This is located next to the South West Coast Path which runs through the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliff National Nature Reserve, a conservation area of international importance. This is an area of extensive landslides which have created a jumble of ridges and chasms, now the location of luxurious woodland and special habitats for plants, birds, insects and other animals. The rock in the landslip back scar is the Upper Greensand Formation (Cretaceous).

This is located next to the South West Coast Path which runs through the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliff National Nature Reserve, a conservation area of international importance. This is an area of extensive landslides which have created a jumble of ridges and chasms, now the location of luxurious woodland and special habitats for plants, birds, insects and other animals. This is a panorama stitched from three photos using Canon's 'PhotoStitch' software.

This lovely, lonely place is Charton Bay on the south-east Devon coast, about midway between Seaton and Lyme Regis. The popular South West Coastal Path passes inland along the undercliff within a few hundred metres of this spot, but there is no public access to the beach here from the path, nor is the bay visible from the path. The only (non-trespassing) way to get here is either by boat or by a 3-mile slog along the beach, either from Lyme Regis or Seaton. As the beach route in either direction involves quite a bit of boulder hopping, this tends to be a very quiet spot. In the 19th and early 20th century there were once private gardens near here in the undercliff, which were planted up with all sorts of exotics. Two of these can be seen in this photo - the Pampas grass and the Holme oak are now unwelcome and very invasive.

Near the start of my walk westwards along the South West Coastal Path, looking back towards Lyme Regis. Golden Cap and Langdon Hill are in the distance; the Cobb peeks out through the trees.

This lovely, lonely place is Charton Bay on the south-east Devon coast, about midway between Seaton and Lyme Regis. The popular South West Coastal Path passes inland along the undercliff within a few hundred metres of this spot, but there is no public access to the beach here from the path, nor is the bay visible from the path. The only (non-trespassing) way to get here is either by boat or by a 3-mile slog along the beach, either from Lyme Regis or Seaton. As the beach route in either direction involves quite a bit of boulder hopping, this tends to be a very quiet spot. In the 19th and early 20th century there were once private gardens near here in the undercliff, which were planted up with all sorts of exotics. Two of these can be seen in this photo - the Pampas grass and the Holme oak are now unwelcome and very invasive. The cliffs in the distance expose the White Lias (Rhaetic) rocks.

View eastwards along Charton Bay, eat Devon. The cliffs here are of White Lias (Rhaetic) marls with thin limestones.

Near the start of my walk westwards along the South West Coastal Path, looking back towards Lyme Regis and the wild and inaccessible landslide area of the undercliff at Ware.