Crosby Beach

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Crosby Beach is part of the Merseyside coastline at Crosby north of Liverpool in the Borough of Sefton.

The beach stretches 2 to 3 miles from the Seaforth docks to the south (where it separates the sea from the Marina), past Crosby Swimming Baths, up beyond the coastguard station in Blundellsands to the estuary of the River Alt.

The navigable shipping channel connecting the Mersey to the Irish Sea runs parallel to the beach to around the coastguard station where it swings out to sea.

The beach has only really been stabilised in the last half a century or so. Previous to this at high tides the sea could come in as far as the first row of houses. Dune management, which is still ongoing to the present day (including the planting of old Christmas trees) and the building of a sea wall have now reduced the problems.

In the older dunes north of the coastguard station, between the sea and the West Lancashire Golf Club, there are still some remains of the old wartime defences.

The Another Place sculptures by Antony Gormley are found here and, after a Sefton Council meeting in March 7 2007, it has been allowed to stay permanently. ^[1] ^[2]

There will be other redevelopment. The Seaforth radar tower, which stands at the south end of the beach, will be given to the public and a new building, The Mersey Observatory, will be built on the site. As demolition of the old structure is not planned until after 2008, a light display will be installed on the site as part of the Capital of Culture and Mersey Waterfront’s River of Light event. ^[3] A million pound scheme has been proposed to redevelop the nearby Marina as part of a visitor's centre for the beach and Another Place.^{[citation needed]}