Mick Hartley

Quintin Lake, who photographed his walk around the British coast for his website, and in his book The Perimeter, picks ten images – “memorable moments” – in the Telegraph:

The British coast is never one thing for long. It shifts between the elemental and the inhabited: cliffs and estuaries, industry and erosion, places shaped by centuries of departure and arrival. Seen at this pace, Britain feels less contained and more provisional, its edges constantly being remade.

Spending so long moving along it on foot, often alone and carrying only what I needed, imposed a discipline and clarity that reshaped my sense of scale, both of the landscape and of my own place within it. These 10 photographs are fragments from that long unfinished edge.

_{Drinks on the shore in Ferring, Sussex}

_{A glimpse of Wales from Somerset}

_{Dylan Thomas’s boathouse}

_{Ynys Lochtyn from the coast path}

_{Farmer Hughes of Galloway}

_{Gourock Outdoor Pool}

_{Loch Hourn from Knoydart}

_{Evening light at Faraid Head}

_{The Pilgrim’s Way to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne}

_{The Broomway, Essex}

_{[Images © Quintin Lake]}

I’ve featured Lake and his journey before: Feb 2016, Apr 2017, Sep 2020, and May 2025.