Ladram Bay

Completed the Sidmouth Saunter Challenge Walk today. We did the 19 mile circular route passing Ladram Bay on the coast path back to Sidmouth.

Ladram Bay comprises a series of well-developed stacks, cliffs and platforms cut into the red sandstones of the Triassic succession, one of very few assemblages of such features in southern Britain. Ladram Bay is unique in Britain in having been cut in the comparatively easily eroded sandstone, but the forms have been preserved largely because this is a relatively low-energy site.

Just to the left of the picture is one of the largest privately owned holiday parks in the UK. In the clubhouse, cafes, restaurants, pub and nightclub you will hear families enthusing about this small but important locality for geomorphology, because of the development of stacks and associated features in lithologies which are so different from many better-known examples.

The walk was fantastic, with cake, sandwiches, rice pudding, drinks, and pasties all provided. Brilliantly organised by the Cornwall and Devon Long Distance Walkers Association.