[Closed] nice british seaside town?

I like Bridlington and Whitby and Brighton the venue is dictated by what my intentions are for the weekend.....

Tenby

I like Filey as its understated and calmer than its neighbours. Maybe look at the seaside places on the Welsh west coast, go for somewhere like Harlech and you've got loads of biking too! Or the Llyn Peninsula in Wales too, gorgeous beaches and no one there!

I did like Tenby but it's a long long drive from Leeds. Awesome beaches in that area.

Swanage, home of Charlie the Bikemonger and the legendary Square and Compass pub.

I was thinking of somewhere near Aberystwyth, how's that for beaches, countryside, cycling local attractions?

[i]Swanage, home of Charlie the Bikemonger and the legendary Square and Compass pub.[/i]

Indeed...well, Isle of Purbeck anyway. Enid Blyton country, castles, cottages, caves, fossils and cream teas!

Southwold. It's even got it's own [url= https://tours.adnams.co.uk ]brewery[/url]

Tenby is utterly gorgeous, and well worth the journey. If you're willing to look North, though, Seahouses in Northumbria is also lovely.

Fowey is really nice.

Seahouses in Northumbria is also lovely.

As is Alnmouth.

+1 for Swanage

For a smaller destination (lots of extras within short driving distance), I give you… Beaumaris.

You get this view from the front:

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Cromer

[i]I was thinking of somewhere near Aberystwyth[/i]

THAT'S IN WALES!!! 😯

joking...I love the Isle of Purbeck, but not in August.

I was thinking of somewhere near Aberystwyth

Ah, my old hometown. 😀

They got an escalator there a few years ago. Caused quite a stir!

Great coast and countryside there and Aber is nowhere near as sleepy as it used to be. Personally, I'd still go further north, to the Llyn or Angelsey tho.

* flips bird at Rockape63 *

Saltburn, just don't look North

The whole area round Tenby and Haverfordwest is gorgeous and unspoilt, with beautiful beaches. Look up Druidston Haven.....

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Great surf as well, if you fancy a bit of that, big fella 😀

I like Llandudno too, as its a lovely place, and you've got some great riding in the vicinity too. Just don't, under any circumstances, venture down the coast to the East, to Toxteth-on-Sea 😯

Just don't, under any circumstances, venture down the coast to the East, to Toxteth-on-Sea

Rhyl or Colwyn Bay?

* shudders *

Llandudno is, to my mind, just a little bit dull. Plus you have to be over 55 to visit there and that's a fact.

Aberdyfi - glorious little town and lots of riding nearby in and around Machynlleth

Largs?

Tenby is lovely as said, but can getted rammed to the gunnels in August. Then again so are all seaside towns I spose.

I love Bude/Stratton, me.

[i]Ah, my old hometown. [/i]

You gotta love Google street view...I click on Aberystwyth, drop onto the beach road and do a quick tour. Looks very nice! 8)

Do you want tacky seaside town or a beauty spot?

Seahouses is tacky, Alnmouth is a beauty spot.

[url= https://www.google.co.uk/maps/ @50.637121,-2.2019,3a,75y,229.94h,82.03t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1srIXKbIqBm3xGPMOL3AcEVg!2e0?hl=en]Favourite Purbeck Pub[/url]

Never posted a street view before...so thought I'd try.

Tenby and the Pembrokshire Coast is worth the drive because so many others don't bother.

The Gower is great too but a bit more crowded and accessing some of the beaches is a hassle due to limited parking

PS I love Dartmouth too ! Best wishes for an August holiday, glad I don't have to do that any more.

Pembrokeshire is horrible. There really is nothing to see there. Terrible beaches. Please don't go. 🙂

I do like the weld arms but personally I wouldn't lsay the best pub in the Purbeck one of the better ones certainly.

DD +lots.

Pembrokeshire is ghastly. Full of beaches, scenery, clear water. Especially further west you go past Tenby. North Devon is the same.

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Fraserburgh....

Aberdyfi. Towyn (sp?) up from there.

Great beaches in north Norfolk, Hunstanton all the way along past Cromer, Plus Bewilderwood for the kids inland.

Awesome beaches in Northumberland.

Swanage, Southwold, or St David's (technically a city)

All brilliant and utterly lovely.

Abersoch

Abersoch, Robin Hood's Bay.

Findochty

Dartmouth is on the far side of this stretch of coastline.

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On the right is Start Point lighthouse, which is open to the public during the summer, then on the left is Hallsands, Beesands, Torcross and Slapton Sands, Blackpool Sands, and the entrance to Dartmouth harbour way off in the distance. Dartmoor is off to the left, in the far distance.

Deal in Kent is pretty rad.
Crantock near Newquay is an awesome place to camp - great walks along the coast and lovely huge beach.

Don't forget your stash of 2p's from home

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good timing with the above pic. My 2ps worth is that it's not hard to find a nice seaside town . But a nice seaside town with good food.... Not easy I reckon . Tend to find it's what lets British seaside towns down. Views are great , pubs are good , food is terrible. It's getting better but still miles away from that there Europe

I'm off down swanage way camping next week. Fantastic area. The square and compass will definitely be getting a visit or 4.

Rye, Tenby, Looe, Weymouth, Sidmouth, Lyme Regis ... all good.

We're doing Ilfracombe and Southwold this year and Sidmouth and Looe next year.

If you're not tied to the car, Guernsey?

Flights are short - there's loads of great sandy beaches, plenty of places doing decent food, clean, and less "touristy" than you'd imagine.

Build in a short flight or a boat ride to get that "we're on holdiay" feeling, but with the advantage your money's good, the language is no barrier and you can get a mobile signal (I'd recommend getting payg sims once there), its a great place - Loads of forts for the kids to explore.

good timing with the above pic. My 2ps worth is that it's not hard to find a nice seaside town . But a nice seaside town with good food.... Not easy I reckon . Tend to find it's what lets British seaside towns down. Views are great , pubs are good , food is terrible. It's getting better but still miles away from that there Europe

Jaywick.

if you like Dartmouth, go South West a bit further to Salcombe..

Not in August mind 😕

+ Salcombe. Or the Mumbles/Gower/Port Eynon neck of the woods.

Bugger off to Exmouth, stay at Sandy Bay (it's not that bad to be honest and will keep kids entertained) and then during the daytime when you're not on the Sandy Bay beach, grab a rucksack, some sarnies and a camera and walk the coastline route along the Jurassic coast?

Newquay west wales is lovely loads of stunni g beaches in general cardigan bay area

Spend your money in the North the southerners have far to much! I would recommend Scarborough lived there for 5 years just hoe there is no sea fret!

Rich

dartmouth is still top of the list, it is worth the drive just to sample the fish n jockeys at the boozer at slapton.

swanage looks ok too i might add.

Dartmouth is a nicer place than Swanage imo. The area around Swanage is lovely, the town itself, not so much. I go there loads, but never fallen for the actual town. Swimming in the bay is ace mind.

Last time I was in Dartmouth I witnessed the poshest, most genteel road rage incident between too old boys ever. It's kind of like that.

In Wales, I like the Llyn, and I love Pembrokeshire, Mumbles beach especially, but I have a soft spot for the seaside towns south of Aber and north of Cardigan. Went back to the same holiday cottage three years in a row. Lovely spot, just above the beach, waterfall falling over the cliff onto it, little beach shop for an ice cream, and a good pub.
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Hartlepool's very underrated Ton, as are Redcar, Saltburn, Seaton Carew, Crimdon, the list is endless!

@ Midlife, good fishing off the coast do you know?

Salcombe? Pah. Don't be silly. That's the wrong side of the estuary. East Portlemouth is where it's at. Millbay, specifically! So much of my youth was spent/wasted there I hardly know where to start! 8)

I also used to live near Haverfordwest, and now spend a lot of time with friends near Stackpole, and I can confirm that it's glorious country. Superb beaches, wonderful pubs (Ton, you'd love the pub at the Quay at Cresswell Quay. Especially if Maurice is pouring!).

Northumberland? Hell yes! Bamburgh beach is an utter delight. Can't say I like Seahouses, but different strokes for different blokes and all that.

Plenty fishing off the beaches mornings and evenings, tons of rocky spots for bass and dogfish. Crabbing in the harbours and boat trips from New Quay and Aberaeron if not others. Rivers and lakes too are well stocked but I've no idea on visitor access.

[url= http://www.newquay-westwales.co.uk/fishing.htm ]http://www.newquay-westwales.co.uk/fishing.htm[/url]

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CountZero - Member
good timing with the above pic. My 2ps worth is that it's not hard to find a nice seaside town . But a nice seaside town with good food.... Not easy I reckon . Tend to find it's what lets British seaside towns down. Views are great , pubs are good , food is terrible. It's getting better but still miles away from that there Europe

The tiny village of Beesands in that photo does outstanding food, all sourced locally; no surprise they specialise in seafood, their scallops are to die for. Caught out in the bay. The pub is the Cricket Inn, I stayed there two years running, the third year I was down there I stayed with local friends and ate there every night for a week. Good beer, too.
There is another good restaurant in Torcross, another in Slapton, just about a mile inland

Cool good to know I'll look it up

Beaumaris +1
I lived overlooking the pier (and Snowdonia) for 2 years as a student.
Beautiful place.

bookmarked. 8)

Bude is nice.

Southwold. It's even got it's own brewery.

yep but don't think Ton would appreciate the price of a pint though.

What the hell are people doing suggesting going north on holiday?

Rule #1 for holidays - don't go north. It'll be colder than at home.

I'm very biased because we absolutely love it there but the Isle of Wight. Any beach from Ryde going clockwise around the island all the way to Totland Bay is spot on. The little bit inbetween isn't - muddy and strong tides.

But Ryde is probably one of my fave beaches I've been to. Lots of ice cream, amazing sandy beach, absolutely bloody massive, can watch trains, boats, hovercraft - its epic. For something smaller, St Helens just down the coast. Bit more rocky but amazing. Great cafe there as well.

Ever thought of Lyme Regis ? Dorset Coast is excellent and if you want to go somewhere really quiet.. try a place that we would all love to live..

Beer 😆

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Sandsend nr Whitby

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Holywell Bay nr Newquay

ABERSOCH? Ghastly place full of nouveau riche folk fom Cheshire showing off their ostentatious wealth. Vulgarsoch would be a better name.

[b]I like Bridlington [/b]and Whitby and Brighton the venue is dictated by what my intentions are for the weekend.....

Being Bridlington born and bred, I never thought I'd see this written down...

Here's the sight I arrived to in Brid after finishing the Way of the Roses.

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Woolacombe.

Bridport/West Bay/Burton Bradstock - good beaches, the odd fossil, Palmers Ales. The odd bit of beach with bluebells and child murderers but that's fiction.

if you like Dartmouth, go South West a bit further to Salcombe..

Has no one mentioned my home town of Blackpool 🙂

Tenby and Lyme Regis are both very nice but August is going to be busy.

BLackpool is a shocker - the front is smart because Lancashire has spent all our money on refurbs but go one block back into the town and you're in the DSS ghetto. The most merciful thing that could happen to Blackpool would be a tsunami but that would mean it would all get washed across the Fylde and up our lovely Ribble Valley with all the alkies and dossers and asylum seekers clinging to the debris.

I lived in Surrey for 25 years and I found Salcombe too "Surrey on tour" for my liking particularly in the summer. I owe a debt of gratitude to the lifeboat for towing us in during the 2007 Fastnet after we where dismasted, its a wonderful estuary but best visited out of season. The town has also done the world the great disservice of being the founding place of Jack Wills 😐

I'd agree with the comments on Salcombe being "Kensington on Sea" well yes during High Season, however out of Season it's just a really lovely place to be.

Many a Happy year spent Merlin Rocket or N12 or Salcombe weeks sailing there.. I've a friend who lives there now, well for the last 14 years and it's quite interesting to hear the gossip he comes out with.

Anyway I've changed my mind, Beer is the place to go.. I mean WHO wouldn't want to go to Beer?? 😆

Ventnor on the Isle of Wight.

Benign, sunny micro-climate, fine locally-caught seafood, especially the crab landed at nearby Steephill Cove, spectacular topography and views, superb walking and riding right out of your back door.

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A cycling trip to Blackpool, yesterday:

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^^ 😯

Ohh Errr

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Salcombe is lush and your can explore the south hams including Hope, Bigbury and so on.
I went Guernsey a couple of year ago and it was amazing. You will need a car to explore but if your thing of flying it may be easier to get the car on the ferry.
I also grew up on the Isle of Wight and that has loads of great seaside sports to visit. Plus there's Blackgang chine which everyone has to go to once in their life.

Silloth 😀

Newbiggin by the Sea 😆