Best UK Beaches

[KAZ]

Always looking for good beaches to visit.......Any suggestions?

[Artemis]

Plenty of them. The English and Welsh coasts bordering on the Irish Sea. The beaches of Norfolk are excellent. Bournemouth westwards on the south coast. Scotland abounds with them on both coasts. Good hunting.

[gary baldy]

Tenby, south wales

[spudqueen]

The Gower peninsula, South Wales (not far from Swansea) has loads of excellent beaches. Caswell beach has often won the European Blue Flag award. There are different types of beaches to visit, Caswell, Langland, Oxwich, Port Eynon all have easy access from a car park and have a shop and a toilet easily accessible (Oxwich also has the excellent Oxwich Bay Hotel for a great meal or bar snack). Horton and Rhossili are not too far from a car park but are quieter with no shops or other facilities (well, Rhossili has back at the top of the cliff!) and then there is the spectacular Three Cliffs Bay with no easy access but well worth going to, as is Mewslade.

[nickmo]

Calgary Bay, Isle of Mull: http://www.mull.zynet.co.uk/accommodation/calgary.htm or Big Strand, Islay: http://www.scotland-inverness.co.uk/islay.htm or Opinan, http://www.nafirchlis.co.uk/ or Clashnessie, http://www.ullapool.co.uk/beaches.html

Wales, go to Manorbier and Shrinkle Bay: http://www.m2002.fsworld.co.uk/mbrcom4.html. Absolutely the best place to go.

[Dassie]

Towans ( nr Hayle ) and also Carbis Bay ( North Cornwall ). Southbourne to Hengistbury Head just east of Bournemouth

[nickmo]

Kaz - where are you based - where are you travelling to to get to a beach? Lots of suggestions about, so starting point would help.

[gingerflaps]

SKEGGY!!!!!! no i'm only joking, dont go to skeg its horrible, but devon and cornwall have nice beaches and good waves.

[KAZ]

Thank you for your many suggestions, I am in Oxford so the south coast is closest, however we do travel all over the country!

Thanks again xx

[mash]

The beaches around the Antrim Coast of N.Ireland are some of the best, try Portrush, Whiterocks and Downhill if you ever fancy a trip over.

[Giraffe1]

Anywhere along the Northumberland coast - beautiful scenery, peaceful and cold!!

[travis1]

Whitesands beach in St Davids Wales. Often voted as one of the top 10 best beaches in the world