Marsden Rock is a 30-metre-high monolith about 100 metres offshore. Home to a colony of seabirds, it’s completely surrounded by water at high tide – but at low tide you can walk right up to it. The rock was once a favourite haunt of smugglers. You can reach Marsden Rock on the coastal walk between the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear. Along the walk, look for the cave that was blasted into the rock by a local miner in 1782 – it’s reputed to be haunted. A little further on, you’ll come to Souter Lighthouse, the first in the world to be designed for electric light.
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