Carol Saunders, who lives by the Jurby coastline, is angry about the number of people that park their cars near her home on their way to visit to an old shipwreck.

Mrs Saunders said the issue first came to light over a year ago, but that the volume of cars had not decreased even during lockdown.

She thinks that the increase in activity is from visitors to the remains of a Canadian First World War minesweeping trawler, which ran aground on Jurby beach in 1931.

She mentioned that directions to the wreck were posted on Facebook, which described access as being from the car park by the sewage works, which Mrs Saunders’s gate opens onto.

Cars often line the narrow, single-track road, which runs down towards the beach, also preventing Mrs Saunders from accessing the gate to her land.

She complained to the Department of Infrastructure - due to it being a potential safety issue as it also prevents emergency service vehicle access - but since personnel visited to survey the site she has not heard back from them.

Mrs Saunders said she and her neighbours were getting ’quite fed up with it’.

She added: ’They’re coming on to my land, my neighbour’s land, they’re running across the top of the cliffs and dropping down [onto the dunes], just letting their kids run up the cliffs - which are so unstable because everything is so sodden.’

Mrs Saunders added: ’I can’t get out. During the last lockdown I was stuck indoors for four days.

’And if I can get out, I don’t know if I can get back in again.

’And where do I put my car?

’Do I leave it in the middle of the road and walk away?

’They can’t come into the countryside and treat it like a great big playground.’

She added that her neighbour had placed boulders at the end of his drive to prevent people from reversing in.

Asked what she would like the DoI to do about the problem, Mrs Saunders said:

’Just sort the problem out. Stop them.

’You’ll never stop them going on the beach, but [limit] the road parking to only one side. Or make it into a turning area [at the end of the road, by the beach access].

’Because some people can’t do a three-point turn, they can only do a 10-point turn’.

’And where you’ve got cars parked both sides by both gates [her’s and the beach access], you can’t turn anything around.’

Jurby beach gained prominence, and possibly more visitor interest, ever since it was voted as the sixth favourite British beach in the Sunday Times, out of a list of 40.

It was also listed as ’Best for Wreckers’ based on the added historical interest of the wreck.

Government guidance is that people are permitted to travel to do exercise if it is not possible where they live, but people are advised to keep their exercise locally wherever possible.