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…
Tunnels Beaches
Ilfracombe
A privately managed beach reached through a series of hand-cut tunnels through the cliffs,…
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…
Watergate Bay
Newquay
A huge, dramatically flat expanse of golden sand backed by high cliffs, with two miles of …
Dorset
Studland Beach
Swanage
Four miles of National Trust sand in Dorset's most protected bay — Studland offers some of…
Lyme Regis Beach
Lyme Regis
Part of the Jurassic Coast, with firm sand and shingle banks that make for sturdy wall-bui…
West Bay
Bridport
A dramatic shingle-and-sand beach beneath the striped sandstone cliffs made famous by tele…
Weymouth Beach
Weymouth
A classic, gently curving Victorian seaside beach with fine golden sand that's been a fami…
North Yorkshire
Northumberland
Bamburgh Beach
Bamburgh
Perhaps the most dramatic backdrop for a digging session in England — Bamburgh's vast flat…
Beadnell Bay
Beadnell
A sheltered Northumberland bay with a mix of sand and rock pool areas — one of the best be…
Holy Island (Lindisfarne)
Berwick-upon-Tweed
A tidal island connected to the mainland by a causeway that floods twice daily, with wide,…
Merseyside
Lincolnshire
Lancashire
Isle of Wight
Somerset
Wales
Pembrokeshire
Tenby South Beach
Tenby
Pembrokeshire's most beloved town beach — a wide, clean arc of golden sand beneath the col…
Whitesands Bay
St Davids
A broad, Blue Flag sandy beach near Britain's smallest city, backed by dunes and dramatic …
Freshwater West
Pembroke
A wild, expansive beach backed by some of the largest dunes in Wales, familiar to film fan…