Photo Darren Chung
Living in a home that is looking out over the sea or sits alongside a beautiful river is the dream of many. The length of Great Britain’s coastline, along with the perimeter all of its principal islands, measures nearly 20,000 miles, we then have all the thousands of linear miles of rivers and canals on top of that. So, there are plenty of opportunities for us to live by water.
There are incredible health benefits too. Researchers from the European Centre for Environmental & Human Health at the University of Exeter looked at data from the UK census of more than 48 million people to assess how a person’s geographical location might affect their health. When all of the information was correlated together they found that the closer a person lived to the sea, the better their health. Surely the fresh air alone is a good enough reason to live by the sea.