Digging Locations
From the Norfolk flats to the Hebrides and beyond — the best beaches for digging with children, with everything you need to know before you go.
England
East Sussex
Norfolk
Holkham Bay
Wells-next-the-Sea
The crown jewel of British beach digging. Holkham's vast tidal flats extend hundreds of me…
Wells-next-the-Sea Beach
Wells-next-the-Sea
A classic north Norfolk beach with broad flat sands, colourful beach huts, and backed by a…
Brancaster Beach
Brancaster
Remote, vast, and utterly unspoiled — Brancaster is what beach digging should feel like. T…
Devon
Woolacombe Beach
Woolacombe
Three miles of Atlantic-facing golden sand backed by dunes, with powerful surf rolling in …
Croyde Beach
Croyde
A compact, horseshoe-shaped surf beach that punches well above its weight for digging. The…
Saunton Sands
Braunton
Three miles of clean, straight, perfectly flat sand backed by the vast Braunton Burrows du…
Bantham Beach
Kingsbridge
A jewel of the South Hams — a sheltered sandy beach at the mouth of the River Avon estuary…
Cornwall
Sennen Cove
Sennen
At the very tip of England, Sennen is a beautifully sheltered cove with clean Atlantic-whi…
Perranporth Beach
Perranporth
Three miles of unbroken Atlantic sand with impressive rock stacks and caves at the souther…
Polzeath Beach
Polzeath
The quintessential Cornish family beach — wide, flat, sandy, and reliably busy in summer b…
Daymer Bay
Rock
A small, perfectly sheltered tidal cove on the Camel Estuary — one of the calmest and most…