We live in ‘forgotten’ seaside town that’s so cheap homes sell for just £10,000 – but we’ve NEVER gone to the beach

A FORGOTTEN 'seaside' municipality with plentifulness of tourists has immoderate of the UK's cheapest homes - but locals person ne'er been to the shingle beach.

Workington successful Cumbria sits conscionable a fewer miles from the Lake District National Park, with a terraced spot presently connected merchantability for conscionable £10,000.

Another three-bedroom location is listed astatine £30,000.

Earlier this summer, it was named successful the apical 10 seaside towns with the astir affordable homes by Rightmove.

The mean location terms is £141,674, according to the spot site's data.

The engaged buying country boasts precocious thoroughfare giants specified arsenic Marks and Spencer, and Next.

Workington Beach sits conscionable southbound of the rima of the River Derwent and the docks country - though its soil is not exposed until debased tide.

The municipality is the starting constituent for the Sea-to-Sea Cycle Route (C2C) implicit the Pennines to Sunderland.

Market stall relation Ian Cale, 63, told The Express he's "not truly ever got down to the beach" and described Workington itself arsenic "a spot rundown" and successful request of investment.

Florist Alison Short, 54, said she has ne'er erstwhile been to the formation contempt surviving determination each her life, adding: "It decidedly isn’t a seaside town."

Shop proprietor Graeme Cameron, 55, said: "We bash get plentifulness of tourists who travel to spot the country and a batch of them person got caravans - but a batch of that has to bash with the Lakes arsenic it’s cheaper to enactment conscionable extracurricular than successful the Lakes itself."

According to Visit Cumbria: "Workington is an past marketplace and concern municipality astatine the rima of the River Derwent, and is the main buying centre for West Cumbria.

"Some parts of the municipality northbound of the River Derwent day backmost to Roman times.

"It was successful the 18th century, with the exploitation of the section robust ore and ember pits, that Workington expanded to go a large concern municipality and port."

Points of involvement see Jane Pit connected recreational crushed disconnected Moss Bay Road.

It is the champion surviving illustration of the ornate castellated benignant of colliery architecture.

While the ruins of Workington Hall beryllium connected the northeast outskirts of the town, wherever Mary Queen of Scots erstwhile posed arsenic an mean pistillate and wrote a missive to Queen Elizabeth I aft her forces were defeated astatine the Battle of Langside.

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