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Gibraltar Point

East Lindsey, Italy

Gibraltar Point

Gibraltar Point is a headland on the coast of Lincolnshire, England, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of Skegness, where the North Sea coast turns southwest towards Boston and enters The Wash. The point is at the southernmost point of a national nature reserve covering an area of about 4.3 km2 (1.7 sq mi) .

The reserve is owned by Lincolnshire County Council and East Lindsey District Council and is administered by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. The reserve comprises two parallel ridges of sand dunes—the "east dunes" and the "west dunes"—separated by about half a kilometre (550 yards) of salt marsh; and an area on the seaward side with further salt marsh and sand, shingle and muddy beaches. The reserve extends for a distance of about 5 km (3 mi) along the coast, from the southern end of Skegness to the northern corner of The Wash . A golf course occupies much of the west dunes (the inland side) at the Skegness end of the area. Gibraltar Point is an area of coastal deposition—at the end of the 18th century the west dunes were by the shore, but they are now a kilometre inland. In 2016 a new visitor centre opened at the southern end of the reserve to replace the previous one which had been damaged...

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