Find Nearest Seaside Award in Fife
Seaside Award beaches in Fife. Unlike the Blue Flag beach award, each country also has its own seaside award to signify a good standard of beach and facilities. The awards evaluate a beach on water quality, information displays, environmental management, safety and services.
Below we list the current Fife beaches that hold a Seaside Award.
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Burntisland beach is a sandy beach with rock pools. An excellent family beach and at low tide you get a massive area nearly one mile wide of sand and mud flats which go all the way out to the Black Rocks and all the way east to Pettycur beach. Take care of the mud flats when walking out at low Read more…
St Andrews East Sands is the middle size of the three St Andrew beaches, a sand beach sitting within the town backed by grass area. At the top end you have a small sea wall and harbour where local fishing boats operate from. Facilities include parking, toilets, slipway, cafe, and children’s play area. Read more…
Kingsbarns beach is on the Fide Coastal path popular with walkers passing this 2-mile stretch on sandy beach backed by sand dunes and a golf course. You also have interesting rock pools to explore. The beach is also known as Cambo Sands. Facilities at the beach include parking and toilets. Read more…
Pettycur Bay beach is a sheltered small sandy bay backed by sand dunes. At low tide Pettycur Bay becomes a massive expanse of sand and mud flats nearly one mile wide. The beach goes out to Black Rocks and joins up in the west to Burntisland beach. Read more…
Roome Bay beach is a curving bay of sand, rocks and rockpools that extends from the small harbour fishing village of Crail. The beach has a small part to the west of the harbour and another stretch to the east of the village. The beach has car parking and a number of campsites with the village also having a few options Read more…
Seafield beach is a sandy beach with rock pools and some grass areas in a quiet area to the south of Kirkcaldy. The beach looks out into the Firth of Forth and if you are lucky you will see some seals on the rocks. Facilities at the beach include car parking but you can also walk from Kirkcaldy. Read more…
One of the two beaches in Kinghorn, the other being Pettycur Bay. Kinhorn beach is a sheltered sandy bay within the town ideal for families with views out to Inchkeith Island. Read more…
Leven beach is a long sandy beach with views towards Edinburgh over the Forth of Fife. Facilities at the beach include toilets, park, Leven Leisure Pool, seasonal lifeguards, amusement arcades and outdoor fitness area. Read more…
Billow Ness beach is a quiet sandy bay to the west of Anstruther Harbour and part of the Fife Coastal Path. Facilities include car parking and toilets. Read more…
Black Sands is a small sandy, shingle, quiet, tranquil and secluded stretch of sand with rocky outcrops nestling on the south side of the village of Aberdour next to the harbour. Well worth an explore of the rock caves. Facilities include toilets, parking. Read more…
The West Sands at St Andrews is a long stretch of sand backed by the famous Royal & Ancient Golf Club. You may also recognise it as the beach was used for the famous opening sequence of Chariots of Fire. The beach is sandy, stretches for 3 km (2 miles), is backed by large grass areas and sand dunes. Multiple options to park Read more…
Ruby Bay is a sandy beach in a sheltered bay to the east of the village of Elie that is backed by dunes and grass areas. The beach is also referred to as Wood Haven. The beach is known for “Elie rubies”, blood-red pyrope garnets embedded in the volcanic rock along the shoreline. On a sunny day, you can lie down Read more…