Langdon Bay (Kent)

An additional means of exit from the beach being a return on foot to St Margaret's Bay.

[1] This includes bronze axes of a French type[2] and is thought to represent the cargo of a boat that was caught in a storm just after leaving the English coast, either jettisoned to lighten and save the boat or sunk with it (if there was a wreck, it is now lost).

Three searchlight batteries – known as the Langdon Lights – were built into the base of the bay's cliffs during World War II, so that any ship trying to enter the bay could be illuminated while it was checked, though one battery has since been destroyed by a cliff fall.

Large parts of this reserve, and of this section of clifftop in general, is an SSSI, AONB and Heritage Coast.

[4] Another nearby historic site is the South Foreland Lighthouse, also a NT property.