Beaches · Scottish Lowlands
Block Sands
Block Sands is a beach in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–3 h
- Best time of year
- Summer (Jun–Aug)
- Nearest railway station
- Hartlepool · 2.1 km
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
About
Block Sands is a beach on the coast of the Scottish Lowlands. The site is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest, and is a Ramsar wetland of international importance. It sits within the Hartlepool parliamentary constituency. The nearest railway station is Hartlepool, about 2.1 km away. Postcode area TS24.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast SSSI
- Ramsar wetland: Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
A block and tackle or only tackle is a system of two or more pulleys with a rope or cable threaded between them, used to provide tension and lift heavy loads. The pulleys are assembled to form blocks and then blocks are paired so that one is fixed and one moves with the load. The rope is threaded through the pulleys to provide mechanical advantage that amplifies the force applied to the rope. Hero of Alexandria described cranes formed from assemblies of pulleys in the first century. Illustrated versions of Hero's Mechanica (a book on raising heavy weights) show early block and tackle systems.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
Description
s and sailing ships, where tasks are often performed manually, as well as on cranes and drilling rigs, where once rove, the tasks are performed by heavy equipment. In the diagram shown here, the number of rope sections of the tackles shown is as follows: Note that in the gun tackle, double tackle and threefold purchase, both blocks have the same number of pulleys (one, two and three, respectively) whereas the Luff tackle and Gyn tackle have mis-matched blocks with differing numbers of pulleys.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 54.6946, -1.1774
- District
- Hartlepool
- Parish
- Headland
- Postcode
- TS24 0QG
- Parliamentary constituency
- Hartlepool
- Nearest railway station
- Hartlepool — 2.1 km
- Official site
- www.heughbattery.co.uk
Sources
- osm: w1141773575 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Block and tackle (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Block Sands?
- Block Sands is in the Scottish Lowlands, United Kingdom (postcode TS24 0QG), in the parish of Headland.
- Is Block Sands a protected site?
- Yes — Block Sands is part of the Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast Ramsar wetland.
- Is Block Sands free to visit?
- Yes, Block Sands is free to enter.
- How do I get to Block Sands?
- The nearest railway station is Hartlepool, about 2.1 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode TS24 0QG.