The Marine Drive was completed in 1879 at the cost of £14,000, and was owned by a private company until 1897, when it was purchased by the Urban District Council, which in 1910 abolished the toll for pedestrians. So that to make it free to foot-passengers, the Council relinquished a sum equal to nearly a penny in the pound on the rates. At each end of Marine Drive is a toll-house, the distance between is 4 1/4 miles, the total circuit of the Ormes Head is nearly 6 miles.