Find Nearest Beaches in Northumberland

Planning a trip to the Northumberland coast and looking for where the nearest Northumberland beach is, our UK beach lists and beach search will help you discover the nearest beach to me.  Then for each Northumberland beach, we will answer questions around location, rural or town, sandy or pebble, rockpools, tide times, weather forecast, dog restrictions, bathing water quality, closest beach cafes and provide general information on the beach, its facilities and the surrounding area.

When on a beach page use our tools to expand your search to nearby seaside villages, towns and the surrounding Northumberland coast for things to see and do or places to eat.

If you are looking for an award-winning beach, you can browse our UK Blue Flag lists or our UK Seaside Award lists.

Have a dog? Finding a dog-friendly beach can be hard work and our dog-friendly beach lists will help direct you to the best locations allowing dogs.

Finding the best beach in Northumberland is easy – explore the beach links below, to find the closest beach just hit the “Find Near Me” button or use the search bar to plan where your next Northumberland beach visit should be.

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Berwick Beach

Berwick beach is a sandy beach to the north of the Tweed estuary pier. Read more…
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Blyth Beach

Blyth beach situated to the South of Blyth Harbour and includes a promenade and a long strip of golden sand. Facilities at the beach include parking, toilets, beach hut hire, promenade along with more nearby facilities in the town. Read more…
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Amble Links Beach

Amble Links beach is sand and shingle positioned on the outskirts of Amble just south of the harbour by a holiday park. Amble in Northumberland is a small fishing village with it’s own harbour and marina. As with most of the Northumberland coastline the coastal walks are excellent and sailing is also popular. Looking our to sea about a a Read more…
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Seahouses North Beach

Seahouses North beach is  a sandy beach with sand dunes to the North of the fishing village of Seahouses. Good location for beach walks with the facilities include toilets, parking, cafe and shops. Read more…
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Cheswick Sands Cocklawburn Beach

Cheswick Sands is one of the biggest beaches in Northumberland, a large area of flat sand with black rocks and dunes. This is a vast beach that stretches as far as the eye can see and merges in with Cocklawburn beach in the north. Excellent beach for walking. On a clear day to the north end of the beach you can Read more…
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Holy Island Lindisfarne Beach

Holy Island  has a selection of sand beaches and dunes. Also known by its Celtic name as Lindisfarne, Holy Island is accessible only at low tide, twice daily, by a three mile long causeway. The island is one of the top locations for bird watching in North East England. The sand dunes and saltmarsh are a National Nature Reserve, and Read more…
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Cresswell Beach

Cresswell beach spans either side of the village on the south part of Druridge Bay. To the north, you have a large sandy beach backed by large areas of sand dunes. To the south, the beach is backed by a caravan park and the headland at low tide exposes some rocks giving some rock pooling opportunities. The shallow beach makes it Read more…
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Fishermans Haven Beach

Fishermans Haven beach is a small sandy beach with rocks, backed by grass-topped cliffs and a caravan site with paths/steps leading down to the beach. A parking area is available on the cliff top. Read more…
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Craster Beach

Craster is a small fishing village on the Northumbrian coast with a small and attractive harbour. The harbour itself is protected by two areas of rocks, known as Muckle Car and Little Car. Craster is not so much a beach but a rocky shore with a view northwards to the spectacular ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle. This is the nearest point Read more…
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Spittal Quay Beach

Spittal Quay  beach is a sandy beach within the Tweed estuary. You can opt for the sea rather than estuary side at Spittal beach that has a promenade and shops. Read more…
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Embleton Bay Beach

Embleton Bay is one of Northumberland’s many fine beaches. The beach is dominated by Dunstanburgh Castle which stands on the south cliffs of the bay. Embleton Bay beach is sandy with rock pools at low tide and is very popular with walkers and families. No facilities and access is from Embleton Village or Low Newton. Read more…
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Longhoughton Steel Beach

Longhoughton Steel is named after the rocks on the point. A number of small stretches of beach (Longhoughton Steel, Howdiemont Sands and Sugar Sands), mostly covered at high tide. The beaches are a mixture of sand, pebbles and rocks. No facilitates and to get to the beach it is best to walk along a track from the north end of Read more…
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