Stranton put-in (Hartlepool)
This slipway is on the open shore at Stranton, reached down a short concrete service road off Fleet Avenue. It lies on the coast close to Hartlepool Yacht Club, outside Hartlepool Marina's impounded lock basin, which sits a little further along the shore behind the yacht club and the marina's sea lock. Paddlers launching here put straight onto the tidal water of Hartlepool Bay, rather than the marina's sheltered inner basin.
The slipway launches directly onto open water on Hartlepool's Stranton shore, close to Hartlepool Yacht Club and a short distance from the entrance to Hartlepool Marina's sea lock, which lies a little further along the coast. Unlike the sheltered, near-constant water level inside the marina's impounded basin behind that lock, this stretch of shore rises and falls with the tide; Hartlepool's standard port tidal range runs from around 0.9 m at low water to around 5.5 m at high water, above chart datum. Lit navigation marks for vessels approaching the harbour stand close by.
The wider Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast, running from Crimdon Dene in the north to the Tees estuary in the south, is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, Special Protection Area and Ramsar site for its tidal mudflats and saltmarsh. Natural England's supporting documents record the site as holding an assemblage of over 20,000 non-breeding waterbirds, including sandwich tern, redshank, knot and ringed plover, and a breeding population of harbour seals.
Nearby
On Navigation Point at Hartlepool Marina, about 350 m from the slipway.
A touring caravan, trailer tent and motorhome site at Dalton Piercy, about 2.8 miles from the slipway; dogs are not permitted.
Conditions to check
The water off this slipway is tidal, part of Hartlepool's standard port tidal regime: high water around 5.5 m (MHWS) falling to low water around 0.9 m (MLWS), above chart datum.
SourceLit navigation marks for vessels approaching Hartlepool's harbour stand within about 250 m of the slipway, marking a channel used by commercial, fishing and marina traffic.
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