Whitesand Bay
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  Whitesand Bay | |
| Location | Cornwall |
| Coordinates | 50°04′55″N5°41′56″W/ 50.082°N 5.699°W |
| Type | Bay |
| Primary inflows | Atlantic Ocean |
| Basincountries | United Kingdom |
| Max. length | 2 km (1.2 mi) |
Whitesand Bay(Cornish:Porth Senan,meaningcove at Sennen) is a wide sandy bay nearLand's Endinwest Cornwall,England,United Kingdom.It stretches for one mile between the headlands of Pedn-mên-du and Aire Point. and contains the village ofSennen Cove.[1]It is also a landing point for theAtlantic Crossing 1international telecommunications cable.
Whitesand Bay beach is popular withsurfers.At high tide, the beach is divided in two:Sennen Cove beachto the south (more popular for its size, facilities and surf schools), andGwynver beachto the north (popular for its typically better surfing waves and walking distance of Trevedra Farm campsite). At the south end, at Sennen Cove, there are toilet facilities, a surf shop, a restaurant, and two car parks, one in a large field above the cliff, and another beside the beach. Dogs are banned on the beach from Easter Day to 1 October every year.[2]TheSouth West Coast Pathruns along the dunes behind the beach.[3]
History[edit]
Perkin Warbecklanded here at the start of theSecond Cornish Uprising of 1497.[4]The bay lends its name to theBay class frigateHMSWhitesand Bay.[citation needed].
Natural history[edit]
The west facing bay is backed by a 38 hectares (94 acres)dune systemwhich has developed from a limited supply of sand trapped within the shelter of the headlands, Pedn-mên-du (in the south) and Aire Point. The dunes contain the only British population of theshield bugGeotomus punctulatuswhich was first recorded here in 1864.[5][6]G. punctulatusis a southern European species and associated with sparsely vegetated areas of loose sand and feeds on lady's bedstraw(Galium verum).Another rarity isEmblethis griseusa seed-eating bug associated with marram grass (Ammophila arenaria), common stork’s-bill (Erodium cicutarium), spurges (Euphorbiaspecies) and sparse grassland. Never numerous here, it is also recorded in theIsles of ScillyandKent.[7]
References[edit]
- ^Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203Land's EndISBN978-0-319-23148-7
- ^"Beaches where dogs are banned Cornwall".Thecornishcoast.co.uk.Retrieved25 September2012.
- ^Ordnance Survey 1:25000 'Explorer' map, sheet 102,ISBN978-0-319-24016-8
- ^Payton, Philip(2004). "We Utterly Refuse... This New English".Cornwall: a history(2nd revised ed.).Fowey:Cornwall Editions Limited. p. 111.ISBN1-904880-05-3.
- ^McDouall, Andrew (n.d.).Land's End to Minehead Maritime Natural Area A nature conservation profile.Truro: English Nature.
- ^Dale, C W (1890). "Additions to list of Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera and Hemiptera".Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society.3:269–70.
- ^Alexander, Keith(2009). In CISFBR (ed.).Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly(2nd ed.). Praze-an-Beeble: Croceago Press. pp. 216–17.ISBN978-1-901685-01-5.
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