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St Bees is a coastal village in West Cumbria, best known as the starting point of Wainwright’s Coast to Coast walk and home to a long, shingle and sand beach tucked beneath the dramatic sandstone cliffs of the South Head. It’s a place defined by its geography; the village sits in a valley that feels slightly separated from the more industrial towns nearby, yet it remains practical for commuting to Whitehaven or Sellafield via the coastal railway line that stops right in the village. Life here tends to revolve around the shoreline and the Priory, a 12th-century Norman church that sits at the village's historic heart. While the village has a local primary school and the independent St Bees School, it remains a quiet spot, often subject to the brisk Irish Sea winds that keep the cliffs - home to the only cliff-nesting colony of Black Guillemots in England - feeling wild and remote. It is a functional, lived-in community where the weather and the tides dictate the pace of the day.