'Creepy' secluded beach with shipwreck and WW2 tunnel is just 1 hour from London

If you privation an breathtaking time out, past this could beryllium the time travel for you.

Just an hr distant from London is simply a formation truthful secluded you person to task done a World War Two passageway and descend a rickety robust ladder conscionable to interaction its pebbles - if the tide hasn’t taken it implicit first.

Beneath the towering Langdon Cliffs adjacent the achromatic cliffs of Dover is simply a tiny pebbled formation lone accessible via the Langdon Stairs. According to the National Trust, the 7 metre ladder was apt an past smuggling way which was besides utilized by coastguards successful the 19th and aboriginal 20th century.

This petite formation is lone accessible during definite points of the day, arsenic a precocious tide volition screen its shores completely, but if you negociate to clip the ascent for the debased tide, you mightiness spot the remains of a shipwreck.

Only disposable astatine debased tide, the wreck of the SS Falcon sits connected the enactment of Langdon Bay aft it was towed there, ablaze, successful the 1920s.

The vessel caught occurrence successful the Dover Strait successful 1926 and was refused introduction to Dover Harbour, truthful it was deliberately tally aground successful Langdon Bay. Now, conscionable the little ribs of the hull stay to beryllium seen erstwhile the tide is out.

It’s not conscionable the remains of a shipwreck to beryllium spotted though. See if you tin spot kestrels, peregrines and buzzards each of which unrecorded nearby.

London-based adventurer and hiker Zoe Tehrani documented her acquisition of exploring the cliffs and formation connected Instagram.

She began her hike connected the Stairs Trail which runs on the stunning cliff face, earlier entering the 35-metre passageway which she described arsenic “creepy”. However, upon reaching the beach, Zoe was thrilled.

Zoe plunged consecutive into the water, blown distant by however wide it was. She said: "You tin really spot my legs."

For adventurers anxious to spot Langdon for themselves, determination are signed pathways from the port, railway presumption and Dover municipality centre. From London it’s a speedy hr connected the bid from St Pancras until you scope Dover Priory.