Find Devon Dog Friendly Beaches
Heading to the Devon coast with your dog and not sure if they are allowed on any beaches?
This Devon list of dog friendly beaches will help in planning your next trip to the beach.
Our 2021 Devon dog friendly beach guide currently has 12 Devon beaches listed where dogs are allowed with 22 beaches that have some dog restrictions, and there are no beaches on which a full dog ban is in operation.
Devon Beaches Allowing Dogs
This list shows 12 Devon beaches with no dog restrictions and can be used all year.
- Thurlestone Sands Beach, Thurlestone
- Slapton Sands Beach, Stokenham
- Gara Beach, Salcombe
- Ansteys Cove Beach, Torquay
- Churston Cove Beach, Brixham
- Lynmouth Beach, Lynton
- Maidencombe Beach, Torquay
- Rockham Bay Beach, Woolacombe
- Ness Cove Beach, Shaldon
- North Sands Beach, Salcombe
- Leas Foot Beach, Thurlestone
- Moor Sands Beach, Salcombe
Note, although dogs are allowed you are expected to keep control of your dog, clean-up after them and some beaches may require you to keep them on a lead. Please check local information sites for any restrictions.
Devon Beaches That Have Dog Restrictions
This list shows 22 Devon beaches allowing dogs but with some restrictions. These restrictions could be a time of day, restricted zones, dogs to be kept on a lead or only allowed out of season. Check our beach information page for details of the restrictions in place.
- Welcombe Mouth Beach, Bideford
- Saunton Sands Beach, Croyde
- Beer Beach, Seaton
- Bigbury on Sea Beach, Bigbury-on-Sea
- Blackpool Sands Beach, Stoke Fleming
- Bovisand Bay Beach, Plymouth
- Broadsands Beach, Paignton
- Challaborough Beach, Bigbury-on-Sea
- Croyde Bay Beach, Croyde
- Coryton Cove Beach, Dawlish
- Dawlish Town Beach, Dawlish
- Dawlish Warren Beach, Dawlish
- Exmouth Beach, Exmouth
- Goodrington Sands Beach, Paignton
- Hartland Quay Beach, Bideford
- Hollicombe Beach, Paignton
- Hope Cove Beach, Salcombe
- Meadfoot Beach, Torquay
- Oddicombe Beach, Torquay
- Preston Sands Beach, Paignton
- Seaton Beach, Seaton
- Torre Abbey Beach, Torquay
Devon Beaches That Have Dog Restrictions
We have no Devon beaches recorded that do not allow dogs at any time.
Devon Beaches That We Have NO Dog Restriction Information
This list shows 62 Devon beaches where we have no information on dog restrictions.
- Babbacombe Beach, Torquay
- Bantham Beach, Bigbury-on-Sea
- Beesands Beach, Stokenham
- Herring Cove Beach, Bigbury-on-Sea
- Branscombe Mouth Beach, Seaton
- Budleigh Salterton Beach, Exmouth
- Westcombe Beach, Bigbury-on-Sea
- Clovelly Beach, Bideford
- Combe Martin Bay Beach, Ilfracombe
- Sugary Cove Beach, Dartmouth
- Elberry Cove Beach, Paignton
- Elender Cove Beach, Salcombe
- Great Mattiscombe Beach, Start Point
- Hallsands Beach, Stokenham
- Wildersmouth Beach, Ilfracombe
- Hele Bay Beach, Ilfracombe
- Tunnels Beach, Ilfracombe
- Instow Beach, Bideford
- Ladram Bay Beach, Sidmouth
- Leonards Cove Beach, Dartmouth
- Mill Bay Cove Beach, Dartmouth
- Man Sands Beach, Brixham
- Mill Bay Beach, Salcombe
- Mothecombe and Coastguards Beach, Plymouth
- Paignton Sands Beach, Paignton
- Plymouth Hoe East Beach, Plymouth
- Plymouth Hoe West Beach, Plymouth
- Putsborough Sands Beach, Croyde
- Redgate Beach, Torquay
- Stoke Row Cove Beach, Plymouth
- South Sands Beach, Salcombe
- Exmouth Sandy Bay Beach, Exmouth
- Sandymere Beach, Bideford
- Sedgewell Cove Beach, Bigbury-on-Sea
- Shaldon Beach, Exmouth
- Shipload Bay Beach, Bideford
- Shoalstone Beach, Brixham
- Jacobs Ladder Beach, Sidmouth
- Sidmouth Town Beach, Sidmouth
- Torcross Slapton Sands Beach, Stokenham
- Soar Mill Cove Beach, Salcombe
- St Marys Bay Beach, Brixham
- Strete Gate Beach, Stokenham
- Holcombe Beach, Teignmouth
- Teignmouth Town Beach, Teignmouth
- Teignmouth Back Beach, Teignmouth
- Watcombe Beach, Torquay
- Wembury Beach, Plymouth
- Lee Bay Beach, Lynton
- Westward Ho! Beach, Bideford
- Wonwell Sands Beach, Plymouth
- Woody Bay Beach, Lynton
- Barricane Beach, Woolacombe
- Woolacombe Beach, Woolacombe
- Wringcliff Beach, Lynton
- Lannacombe Beach, Start Point
- Lee Bay Beach, Ilfracombe
- Breakwater Beach, Brixham
- Broad Sands Beach, Ilfracombe
- Chiselbury Bay Beach, Sidmouth
- Landcombe Cove Beach, Stoke Fleming
- Maceley Cove Beach, Salcombe
If you have visited any of these beaches and can update us then please drop us a note on facebook.
If a Devon beach is not listed above then we have no information and you will have to check local beach information boards.
Note that we try to keep this dog beach information up to date but restrictions are set by local councils and occasionally we may miss a change.
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