ENGLAND COAST PATH
WHAT IS THE ECP?
When fully opened, the path, announced in 2010, will stretch 2,697 miles, making it the longest waymarked coastal path in the world. Distinctive acorn waymarkers (inset, right) will link Northumberland’s Marshall Meadows Bay to the Solway Firth via Land’s End in Cornwall.
The ECP is not a single public or permissive footpath or right of way in the classic sense; instead, it includes the concepts of spreading room and a coastal margin. This margin includes all land between the trail and the sea, thanks to the , which gives everyone the
