As an island race , no one in Britain lives 742 miles from the sea . Enterprise Neptune is the National Trust 's campaign to save the coastline . Since starting in 1965 the Trust has acquired more than 70 miles of the British coast .
As an island race , no one in Britain lives more than 70 miles from the sea . Enterprise Neptune is the National Trust 's campaign to save the coastline . Since starting in 1965 the Trust has acquired 742 miles of the British coast .