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UK COAST GUIDE: WHERE WILL YOU EXPLORE?

With miles and miles of UK & Ireland coastline, thousands of islands to explore and seaside towns to choose from, where is it best to go?

Coast Radar is more than just a beach guide, we have done the hard work along with our community, here you’ll find photos, interactive coast maps, weather, tide times, beach water quality and search tools helping to provide you answers or just some helpful ideas.

The one place to find about all things on the coast. From beach to cliff, from headland to harbour wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do. Coast Radar helps you find the right spot.

It does not matter if you are planning a staycation or a family day out at the beach, Coast Radar is the guide that has the information to help and inspire you to visit and enjoy our beautiful and diverse UK & Ireland coastline.

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UK Beaches

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Get some inspiration for places to visit or activities to do whilst visiting the coast. From history & heritage to sports and theme parks.

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Trending Destinations

Find your next adventure, there’s so much of the UK and Ireland coastline to discover – why not get started with some of our most popular destinations below?

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Want some ideas on where to visit?

Every favourite location must be visited for the first time. Want some ideas, why not check out below which list some of our most popular coastal locations, including beaches, activities, things to see and do, places to stay and eat:

Climping Beach

Climping beach as with many along the Sussex coast has pebbles at high tide and is divided by wooden groynes. But at low tide, a huge expanse of dark, fine, hard-packed sand is exposed, making it an ideal spot for families and shallow swimming. Very popular with kitesurfers and windsurfers with car park grass areas for setting up. Climping Beach Read more…

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Moggs Eye Beach

Moggs Eye Beach is an unspoilt, sandy beach with a wide sandy area that slopes down into the sea. This beach is surrounded by sand dunes with steps leading over the dunes to a picnic area and spacious car park with a toilet block. This is a good beach for swimming, surfing and fishing and has some great walks nearby Read more…

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Elmer Sands Beach

Elmer Sands beach is a typical West Sussex pebble beach with a high water steep pebble bank and wooden groynes. As the tide goes out, the beach expands into flat compact sand. You have some fascinating rock islands which form part of the local sea defence that at low tide become accessible and are great to explore for shells, shrimps Read more…

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St Ives Harbour Beach

St Ives Harbour is a working harbour but as the tide goes out you have a small beach protected by the harbour walls and within the heart of St Ives. A very busy area with restaurants and pubs but also you can hire boats and take seal trips from here. All the facilities of St Ives including car parks, boat Read more…

Seaham Beach

Seaham Beach is a long stretch of sand sitting beneath grassy cliffs and is part of the Durham Heritage Coast. The beach is also referred to as Seaham North beach as it runs north away from the town itself. Until 1921, Seaham was the location of the largest glass-bottle works in Britain. Founded by John Candlish in 1853, under the Read more…

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Morfa Bychan Beach

Morfa Bychan beach near Pendine is a sandy beach with some pebbles, safe bathing and some rock pools to explore. The beach is surrounded by limestone cliffs and caves and looks out over Carmarthen Bay towards Tenby and Gower. There is some parking at the beach but the access road can be bad to access the beach so will need to walk. Read more…

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Portreath Beach

Portreath beach is a gently shelving sandy beach on Cornwall’s north coast. The bay has high cliffs on either side along with a small working harbour. The name Portreath means “sandy cove” and Portreath harbour is steeped in history as it exported copper and imported coal to support the Cornish copper mines and also some shipbuilding. At low tide, this Read more…

Black Cliff Beach

Black Cliff beach is a sandy beach stretching between Hayle Towans and Mexico Towans. Hayle beach is a large beach backed by dunes and Black Cliff beach gives some protection from the wind by being sheltered by cliffs. The beach gets its name from the dark cliffs that line the back of the beach. You often get some large areas of shallow Read more…

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Cattersty Sands Beach

Cattersty Sands and Skinningrove beach are split by a pier which was built by the Skinningrove Iron Company in the late 1880s for loading ore onto steamers bound for Middlesborough. You need to move away from the car park to the other side of the pier where you will find a long stretch of sand with some shingle backed by Read more…

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Littlehampton West Beach

Littlehampton West Beach is on the opposite side of the River Arun from Littlehampton town centre. The beach is much quieter in the summer than the main Littlehampton coastguards beach as it has limited facilities. To access this beach you can either walk across the bridge from the main Littlehampton family beach or use the small local car park. Littlehampton Read more…

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Porthleven Beach

Porthleven beach is next to the harbour and near the village centre. Porthleven beach is separated from the harbour by the granite pier which lies in front of the Porthleven institute and clock tower. When the tide is out it is possible to walk in an easterly direction along Porthleven beach for approximately three miles, past Loe Bar and Penrose Read more…

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Robin Hoods Bay Beach

Robin Hoods Bay beach is a large beach in a small fishing hamlet situated on the Yorkshire Heritage Coast just south of Whitby, the bay is located on a steep hill and marks one end of the coast to coast walk. This beach is a great family location with the beach being shingle with many rock pools and is also Read more…

What’s On Around the Coast

Here we list some of our upcoming events.

Events

Broadstairs Dickens Festival

18th June 2021

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20th June 2021

Charles Dickens visited Broadstairs in Kent regularly from 1837 until 1859. The streets of Broadstairs come to life in Victorian style, with stalls, shopping and demonstrations celebration Charles Dickens and Victorian culture as a whole. Read more…

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Weston Air Festival

19th June 2021

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20th June 2021

The Weston Air Festival is a free event of the 19th/20th weekend in June, with a mix of spectacular aerobatic displays and armed forces celebrations. Air displays plan to start at 1pm and run through until 5pm but are subject to change depending on weather conditions and operational commitments. Plenty to do for the whole family around the Weston seafront, Read more…

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Wales Airshow

3rd July 2021

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4th July 2021

The Wales Airshow is a free event held along the 8 km (5 mile) seafront between Mumbles and Swansea City. With a backdrop of the beautiful Swansea Bay, you will see a wide range of vintage planes and formal displays along with plenty of entertainment on the seafront. Read more…

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Goodwood Festival of Speed

8th July 2021

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11th July 2021

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is located in the beautiful parkland surrounding Goodwood House, near Chichester in West Sussex. The Festival of Speed is motorsport’s weekend summer garden party, more than just the famous hill climb this is a celebration of world motorsport. Read more…

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South Tyneside Festival

11th July 2021

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1st August 2021

The South Tyneside Festival has activities and events taking place throughout July, admission is free. An annual celebration of music and culture. There is something for everyone and a full programme can be found on the website. Read more…

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Bristol Harbour Festival

16th July 2021

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18th July 2021

The Bristol Harbour Festival is an annual festival that spans the city and harbour areas. Throughout the 3 days a wide selection of tall ships, live music, street performances, food markets, water display teams, circus acts and family activities. This event does not have camping but there are a number of hotels, hostels and guest houses in the Bristol area. Read more…

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Falmouth Week

6th August 2021

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15th August 2021

Falmouth Week is eight days of match racing for keelboats, traditional craft and dinghies in the waters off Falmouth Bay, the Carrick Roads and the harbour, along with a lively programme of shoreside events. Read more…

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Boadmasters Festival

11th August 2021

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15th August 2021

The Boadmasters Festival is held in Newquay, Cornwall and split over two locations in the town: Watergate Bay for the camping and the music stages Fistral Beach for the surfing competitions, skate/BMX, Beach Sessions and surf village Read more…

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