Bempton Cliffs meets the North Sea in long chalk walls, their sunlit faces and grassy rim giving the East Yorkshire coast a clear, spacious sense of scale.

The nearest white escarpment rises almost vertically from dark water, its fractured face warmed by late light. Smaller headlands repeat behind it in mauve and ochre, each one lower and softer towards the horizon. Above the rock, an uninterrupted sweep of rough grass reaches back from the edge, while flat clouds stretch across an amber evening sky.

For a visitor at Bempton Cliffs, the coastal path can make the sea feel both close and far below. Residents of the East Riding may know that changing line of headlands and open grass, where the shore carries on beyond the next turn.