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.
Church Bay also known as Porth Swtan, is a small rock/pebble/sand mixed beach, located on the north coast of Anglesey, facing west overlooking Holyhead. The bay is so named Church Bay because of the nearby Llanrhuddlad church which is visible from the sea. Can have some useful surf more suited to bodyboarders and is also a great place for walkers, birdwatchers Read more…
Loughrea Lake beach is located at Loughrea Lake, a limestone lake to the east of Galway. Loughrea Lake is a designated Natural Heritage Area (NHA). Facilities include changing rooms, toilets, showers, picnic areas and seasonal lifeguards. Read more…
Banna Beach has a large sandy beach with sand dunes along its entire length. Very popular surfing, kitesurfing and windsurfing beach. Read more…
Shroove beach is a small sandy beach on the Inishowen peninsula and close to the North Inishowen Natural Heritage Area. Facilities include car parking, toilets and seasonal lifeguards. Read more…
Broadsands beach is a beautiful sweep of fine red sands, between rocky headlands. This beach is an ideal beach for families with children, the long promenade is lined with colourful beach huts and gives a level walk to both ends of the beach. This beach is a favoured starting point for coastal walkers. Facilities at the beach include parking, toilets, food, beach huts, deckchair Read more…
Scarborough is one of Yorkshire’s and the UK’s most traditional Victorian era coastal resort towns. North Bay is one of the two sandy beaches in Scarborough and is the larger although slightly quieter of the two bays. A half moon strip of sand that stretches north from the headland in to the centre of Scarborough. Popular surfing beach suitable for Read more…
Llangrannog beach is a small sheltered sandy beach in the seaside village of Llangrannog. The beach has a distinctive rock called ‘Carreg Bica’ which according to legend was once a giant’s tooth. Small car park and facilities within the village. Read more…
The beach is at the sea-front of Lahinch town and is one of the best beaches in the west of Ireland. Sand is firm with no hidden dangers in the water. For surfers this beach is excellent for the beginner. A choice of waves, the easiest is the main beach break. There are left and rights to surf and when Read more…
Dale beach is a mixture of shingle and muddy sand. Dale is a small village in the heart of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, West Wales. Located on the Dale Peninsula which forms the northern side of the entrance to Milford Haven estuary. Pembrokshire has some of the best sailing conditions to be found anywhere off the coast of Britain, Read more…
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