Beaches

Tresilian Bay beach is a rocky beach with small amounts of sand at low tide, located halfway along the coastal Read more…

St Marys Well Bay is a combination of coarse sand and pebbles. The beach is backed by Triassic sandstone and Read more…

The Knap beach is a wide steeply sloping pebble beach popular with surfers. At low tide you do get some Read more…

Dunraven Bay Beach, also known as Southerndown Beach after the small village nearby, is a sand and pebble beach popular Read more…

Watch House Bay beach is a quiet sandy beach looking over to the old harbour on Barry Island. Watch House Read more…

Whitmore Bay is huge sandy beach that lies between the two peninsulas of Friar’s Point and Nell’s Point. As the Read more…

Bendricks beach is a small sandy beach with the Triassic formations at Bendrick Rock. No facilities but you should be Read more…

Limpert Bay beach is sand and pebbles and the foreshore at Limpert Bay has Jurassic Boulders. The beach still has a Read more…

Ogmore-by-Sea beach is a west facing beach with sand at low tide and rocks at high tide. The beach is Read more…

The two main beaches on Barry Island are Whitmore Bay between the two peninsulas of Friar’s Point and Nell’s Point, Read more…

Jacksons Bay beach is a secluded bay, backed by cliffs with one end being formed by the breakwater at the entrance Read more…

Llantwit Major Beach is a pebbly and rocky beach at the end of a valley. The beach stretches for a Read more…