By the Sea?

[Devonian]

It may be splitting hairs a little, but communities have not generally started on the coast, I think without exception virtually every large town/city has started just inland on the banks of a river examples being Bideford, Barnstaple, Appledore, Instow, Exeter, Plymouth, Bristol, Padstow, Bude, Lynmouth, Liverpool, London, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Newcastle, Glasgow etc etc...

There are exceptions of course one being where my parents originated from - that being Clovelly, but generally most 'coastal' towns are small.

So the coastline itself, is actually remarkably unpopulated and isolated, there are also few roads to the coast and access is generally achieved via footpaths and farm roads only, making them in my opinion a pretty safe bet.......