Seascape Café at the North Sea Observatory
Café inside the North Sea Observatory, a striking 2018 building on the dunes at Chapel Point.
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North Sea Observatory
A striking modern building on the sea wall at Chapel Point, with floor-to-ceiling windows looking out across the North Sea and the dunes. Inside are the Seascape café, an exhibition gallery and displays on the area's natural history. It is open all year and makes a good base for walks along the Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park, with parking and toilets.
Highlights
- Panoramic sea-view café
- Natural history displays
- Open all year
About Chapel Point
The headland at Chapel St Leonards, home to the North Sea Observatory and a wide stretch of open beach. More in Chapel Point.
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Details last checked October 2026. Opening times can change with the seasons, so check with North Sea Observatory before you travel.
Nearby
The Cloud Bar
Opened in 2009 and billed as the UK's first official cloud-watching spot, this quirky timber viewing platform sits on the dunes above Anderby Creek beach.
Chapel Pit Nature Reserve
A small flooded clay pit just north of Chapel Point.
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Sandilands
A former coastal golf course that the National Trust has turned into 30 hectares of wetland, grassland and scrub.
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Queens Park
Mablethorpe's seafront park sits just behind the sea bank, about 500 metres south of the High Street.
Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserve
An 8km wild strip of beach, saltmarsh, dunes and freshwater marsh running north from Mablethorpe towards Saltfleet.
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