A recent re-visit to Stackhouse Cove revealed a surprising discovery: there may be a third bath to add to the two we have written about before.

We have not found any mention of this in any literature and so it is very speculative but it is undoubtedly a very nice open air sea water bath. The only disadvantage is that it is only exposed at fairly low tides.

Bath 1 is the fresh water bath, cut into the cliff for Mrs Stackhouse (which we were pleased to see was attracting a fairly regular stream of admiring visitors).

Bath 2 is the sea water bath on the eastern side of the cove which shows clear evidence of man’s intervention in its creation.

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