Hunstanton Cliffs & Lighthouse

Hunstanton is the oddity of the east coast: it faces west over the Wash, so this is one of the few places in East Anglia where you can film the sun setting into the sea. The striped cliffs — white chalk over rust-red carrstone — run for about a mile between the town and the old lighthouse, and a low pass along the beach at golden hour is the money shot. Fly from the beach at low tide for the classic side-on cliff profile, or from the grassy cliff-top green for wider context with the lighthouse and St Edmund's chapel ruin. Gotchas: the cliff edge generates real rotor in a westerly straight off the Wash, so climb out before you cross the lip, and fulmars nest on the ledges roughly March to August — keep a sensible standoff from the face in that window. The prom and funfair end of town gets rammed in summer; stay north of the crowds. Huge tidal range here, so check tide times before committing to a beach launch, and remember the exposed rocks are slippery chalk.