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Saltburn-by-the-Sea

This charming seaside town (complete with a pier) at the northern end of the 36-mile Heritage Coast is largely the work of the Victorians, and in particular the entrepreneur Henry Pearse. It stands on a cliff high above a long, sandy beach, and to transport visitors from the town to the promenade and beach the ingenious water-balanced Inclined Tramway was built. It is still in use, the oldest such tramway to have survived in Britain. A miniature (15" gauge) railway, first established in 1947 and run entirely by volunteers, runs from the seafront to the Valley Gardens and the Woodland Centre, set between the formal pleasure gardens and  the wild natural woodland beyond. The pre-Victorian Saltburn was a notorious haunt of smugglers, and those days are brought to life with costumed characters, sounds and smells in the Saltburn Smugglers Heritage Centre, set in old fishermen’s cottages next to the Ship Inn in Old Saltburn. Tel: 01287 625252.

At Skinningrove, a few miles east of Saltburn, is the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, where visitors can discover the special skills and customs of the miners who helped make Cleveland the most important ironstone mining district in Victorian and Edwardian England. Tel: 01287 642877.