St Ives is a beautiful Cornwall seaside town that wraps around the harbour with breathtaking scenery of the North Cornwall Atlantic coast. Close to the harbour, its streets are narrow, winding with uneven cobbles. With the benefit of the Atlantic swells and the warmth of the Gulf Stream, the area offers some of the best surf conditions…
St Ives is a popular Cornish seaside town that has a choice of 7 sandy beaches all with different characteristics and two of which are dog-friendly: 1. Porthmeor Beach 2. Porthgwidden Beach 3. Bamaluz Beach (dog-friendly) 4. St Ives Harbour Beach 5. Porthminster Beach 6. Carbis Bay Beach 7. Porthkidney Sands (dig-friendly) We will go…
Cornwall is really a world apart from the rest of England as the county has its own language as well as unique traditions and landscapes. What really marks Cornwall as different is the jagged coastal scenery. It’s a landscape full of mystery and a rawness that makes it beautiful. English holidaymakers flock to Cornwall every…
The Penwith Peninsula covers the south-west corner of Cornwall and thus the British mainland. You can stay anywhere within the peninsula and have access to this beautiful coastline. As a result, easily making this a great spot for a UK based staycation. So where is the Penwith Peninsula? If you roughly draw a line from…
At Coast Radar, we’ve compiled our list of top 10 dog friendly beaches in Cornwall. If you have a dog then family holidays are just not the same without the dog. Especially in the summer, it can be difficult to find a dog-friendly beach as many have seasonal bans. Don’t worry as in the UK…
The UK’s Rugged Coastline has some of the most beautiful, accessible and unspoilt beaches in the world, but before we start we acknowledge that the sea water is cold and you can’t guarantee the sun. The 13,000km of coastline has many seaside locations from the traditional Victorian seafronts to the small fishing villages. In this list, we…
Britain has some breathtaking UNESCO World Heritage Sites from the historic cities of Edinburgh and Bath to beautiful British Coastal World Heritage Sites like the Orkney or the Jurassic coastline. A World Heritage Site is a cultural or natural landmark that has been recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), where each World…
As we now head into Autumn we thought it would be good to list the Best British Beaches of summer 2018 based on how often our site visitors searched and/or viewed the detailed beach page over the summer months. I am sure you will all have your own favourite beaches around Britain so feel free…
The sea around the UK’s coast in the Autumn still remembers the long warm summer days and until you get the cold frosts has lots of possibilities. All too often people get to mid-September and with the darker nights and cooler days start to shy away from visiting the coast. The daylight hours can still be warm,…
Porthleven is the most southerly fishing port on mainland England sitting between Lands End and the Lizard Point in Cornwall. Porthleven has built up around the need for a harbour with the location chosen because there had been many shipwrecks in the bay. The harbour offers historic character and a very interesting structure. The rock and pier entrance is followed by…
The Seal Island trip takes you to a small rocky island 6km west of St Ives and this is the largest island in The Carracks, a group of small rocky inshore islands 200m offshore. It does not take a wildlife expert to understand why the island gets its name as it’s the home to a colony of…
Poldark’s Cornish Coast, for many people they may not have read Winston Graham’s Poldark novels but do have a deep understanding of Poldark’s Cornish coast due to the popular BBC TV series. Poldark’s filming was for the most part outdoors and shows off the beauty and diversity of the Cornish coastline. Here we list the…