North East Coast - Houses, Property and Homes to Rent and Buy

The North East costal area offers some of the most beautiful views in the UK, Sanderson Young can help you find your ideal property to rent or houses and homes to buy in the North East Coast areas. England's highest sea cliff is not Beachy Head but a 600 foot high monolith at Boulby in the Cleveland Hills. Boulby marks the start of a breathtaking coastline that stretches from the Yorkshire Moors to the Scottish Border. This 'Northumbrian Heritage Coast' encompasses the North East's great industrial centres of Middlesbrough, Sunderland and Newcastle as well as sandy beaches, sleepy fishing villages, ruined abbeys and romantic castles.

The coast can be divided into three areas: the southern cliffs, the central resorts and the northern bays. The cliffs region has been dubbed the Dinosaur Coast thanks to the large numbers of fossils found but coastal settlements are sparse as the soft cliffs are rapidly eroding. An exception is 'smugglers' Saltburn which sits in a little gorge and swapped smuggling for tourism in the 19th Century.

The second region, the resorts, begins with Roker near Sunderland, and extends beyond the dramatic ruins of Tynemouth priory to Whitley Bay near Newcastle. These perennially popular seaside towns have survived the rise of foreign holidays and still offer traditional delights like a stroll along the promenade and plenty of rock pools to explore.

Beyond genteel Whitley Bay, the coastline crosses an enormous coalfield and the tunnels from collieries at Blyth, Ashington and Newbiggin extend five miles out to sea. The collieries are now closed and this corner of South Northumberland is slowly reclaiming the land once ruled by King Coal.

Beyond Newbiggin, the coast enters the last region: The Bays of North Northumberland. A series of sweeping sandy curves at Druridge, Alnmouth and Beadnell culminate in the Farne Islands, now a nature reserve, and the 'semi-island' of Lindisfarne.

Also known as Holy Island, this magical place is only accessible at low tide via a causeway so it was the natural choice for monks looking to escape worldly temptation. Holy Island's abbey was where the Lindisfarne Gospels were painstakingly illuminated by Saxon monks.

The breathtaking beauty of these bays makes the picturesque fishing villages of Seahouses, Bamburgh, Beadnell and Alnmouth particularly popular with second home owners but all along the coast are an immense variety of properties. The resorts boast fine Victorian townhouses whilst many farmsteads in the north have become hugely popular barn conversions. But whether you prefer a lively seaside town or a quiet coastal retreat, the sea views of the North East's coast will take your breath away.

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