Find the nearest Blue Flag
Blue Flag beaches , the Blue Flag award is a prestigious, international award scheme that aims to provide an assurance to tourists that a beach has met a minimum standard. To collect a Blue Flag any UK and Ireland beach must achieve the highest quality of water, facilities, safety, environmental education and management.
Below we list the current beaches holding the Blue Flag award.
Lydstep beach is also known as Lydstep Haven, a well protected beach due to the horseshoe shape and limestone headlands. The beach is a mix of sand, shingle and rocks.
The beach is private to the caravan parks but access is available for a day visitor fee.
Thorpe Bay beach is a sand/pebble beach, groynes, tidal paddling pool and is backed by a promenade.
The beach is part of the long Southend-on-Sea seafront and is popular with all watersports.
Facilities include parking, toilets, cafes, restaurants and a promenade.
Magilligan Beach (Benone Strand) is located on the North West corner of Northern Ireland and stretches for 7 miles from Downhill to Magilligan Point.
Magilligan foreland is Ireland’s largest coastal accumulation comprising some 32 square km of marine and wind-blown sand deposits.
Facilities include car parking, shops, cafe/restaurant.
Bray Beach is a mix of pebbles and sand backed by grass areas and a promenade.
Clare Island beach is a small sandy beach right beside the harbour pier on the island.
Spanish Point beach is sandy and is one of the more popular surfing beaches in County Clare.
Spanish point is named after the Spanish who died here in 1588, when ships of the Spanish Armada were wrecked during stormy weather.
Llanddona beach is a good sized family sandy beach that shelves at a decent but not alarming rate. This north east facing beach is located on the eastern side of the Red Wharf Bay area, measures approximately 2.5 km in length, although the bay itself is more than 4 km wide.
Llanddona village is located on high ground between Benllech and Beaumaris, it is popular as a holiday destination on Anglesey. The road down to the beach is for the confident driver as it is steep single track with passing lanes, so be prepared for hill starts. Once on the beach it is well worth the trip.
Popular with windsurfers, sailers, kitesurfing and fishing.
Parking by the beach, slipway, cafe and toilets. You do have a pub in Llanddona at the top of the hill although it has no shops.
Challaborough beach is a popular family and surfing beach offering a predominantly left-hand point break. It has a horseshoe shaped bay with a sand bar protecting the entrance and is split by a small stream. The beach has views of Burgh Island.
Popular with for diving with several wrecks along the nearby coastline.
Facilities include disabled access, slipways and lifeguards patrol most of the year.
Long Sands beach in Tynemouth is a stretch of golden sand suitable for bathing, surfing, kayaking or why not just sit back and relax. As the tide goes out a number of rock pools provide excellent family fun.
Facilities include Parking, toilets, cafe, restaurant and shops.
Fanore beach is a sandy beach on the Atlantic coast of Ireland backed by large areas of sand dunes known as the “Rabbit Warren”, and at low tide, you have exposed limestone. This beach is an unspoilt beach located in the heart of the Burren and Cliffs of Moher Global Geopark that makes thisparticularly interesting to botanists.
Facilities at the beach include car parking, toilets, seasonal lifeguards, whilst the nearby village of Fanore has a coffee shop, pub, and shop.
Manor Steps beach is a sandy beach to the East of Boscombe Pier. Named after the zig-zag path and steps leading down from the cliff above.
Facilities include lifeguard in summer months, car parks, toilets, cafe/shops, beach huts.
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