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 2020 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.

1. Thurlestone Sands Beach, Thurlestone
2. Slapton Sands Beach, Stokenham
3. Gara Beach, Salcombe
4. Ansteys Cove Beach, Torquay
5. Churston Cove Beach, Brixham
6. Lynmouth Beach, Lynton
7. Maidencombe Beach, Torquay
8. Rockham Bay Beach, Woolacombe
9. Ness Cove Beach, Shaldon
10. North Sands Beach, Salcombe
11. Leas Foot Beach, Thurlestone
12. 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.

1. Welcombe Mouth Beach, Bideford
2. Saunton Sands Beach, Croyde
3. Beer Beach, Seaton
4. Bigbury on Sea Beach, Bigbury-on-Sea
5. Blackpool Sands Beach, Stoke Fleming
6. Bovisand Bay Beach, Plymouth
7. Broadsands Beach, Paignton
8. Challaborough Beach, Bigbury-on-Sea
9. Croyde Bay Beach, Croyde
10. Coryton Cove Beach, Dawlish
11. Dawlish Town Beach, Dawlish
12. Dawlish Warren Beach, Dawlish
13. Exmouth Beach, Exmouth
14. Goodrington Sands Beach, Paignton
15. Hartland Quay Beach, Bideford
16. Hollicombe Beach, Paignton
17. Hope Cove Beach, Salcombe
18. Meadfoot Beach, Torquay
19. Oddicombe Beach, Torquay
20. Preston Sands Beach, Paignton
21. Seaton Beach, Seaton
22. 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.

1. Babbacombe Beach, Torquay
2. Bantham Beach, Bigbury-on-Sea
3. Beesands Beach, Stokenham
4. Herring Cove Beach, Bigbury-on-Sea
5. Branscombe Mouth Beach, Seaton
6. Budleigh Salterton Beach, Exmouth
7. Westcombe Beach, Bigbury-on-Sea
8. Clovelly Beach, Bideford
9. Combe Martin Bay Beach, Ilfracombe
10. Sugary Cove Beach, Dartmouth
11. Elberry Cove Beach, Paignton
12. Elender Cove Beach, Salcombe
13. Great Mattiscombe Beach, Start Point
14. Hallsands Beach, Stokenham
15. Wildersmouth Beach, Ilfracombe
16. Hele Bay Beach, Ilfracombe
17. Tunnels Beach, Ilfracombe
18. Instow Beach, Bideford
19. Ladram Bay Beach, Sidmouth
20. Leonards Cove Beach, Dartmouth
21. Mill Bay Cove Beach, Dartmouth
22. Man Sands Beach, Brixham
23. Mill Bay Beach, Salcombe
24. Mothecombe and Coastguards Beach, Plymouth
25. Paignton Sands Beach, Paignton
26. Plymouth Hoe East Beach, Plymouth
27. Plymouth Hoe West Beach, Plymouth
28. Putsborough Sands Beach, Croyde
29. Redgate Beach, Torquay
30. Stoke Row Cove Beach, Plymouth
31. South Sands Beach, Salcombe
32. Exmouth Sandy Bay Beach, Exmouth
33. Sandymere Beach, Bideford
34. Sedgewell Cove Beach, Bigbury-on-Sea
35. Shaldon Beach, Exmouth
36. Shipload Bay Beach, Bideford
37. Shoalstone Beach, Brixham
38. Jacobs Ladder Beach, Sidmouth
39. Sidmouth Town Beach, Sidmouth
40. Torcross Slapton Sands Beach, Stokenham
41. Soar Mill Cove Beach, Salcombe
42. St Marys Bay Beach, Brixham
43. Strete Gate Beach, Stokenham
44. Holcombe Beach, Teignmouth
45. Teignmouth Town Beach, Teignmouth
46. Teignmouth Back Beach, Teignmouth
47. Watcombe Beach, Torquay
48. Wembury Beach, Plymouth
49. Lee Bay Beach, Lynton
50. Westward Ho! Beach, Bideford
51. Wonwell Sands Beach, Plymouth
52. Woody Bay Beach, Lynton
53. Barricane Beach, Woolacombe
54. Woolacombe Beach, Woolacombe
55. Wringcliff Beach, Lynton
56. Lannacombe Beach, Start Point
57. Lee Bay Beach, Ilfracombe
58. Breakwater Beach, Brixham
59. Broad Sands Beach, Ilfracombe
60. Chiselbury Bay Beach, Sidmouth
61. Landcombe Cove Beach, Stoke Fleming
62. 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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