Explore Britain's seaside escapes

Part of Holkham National Nature Reserve — one of England's largest, backed by pine woodland that runs for miles behind the dunes.

Three miles of sand end at Worm's Head, a tidal island reachable at low tide, with the wreck of the Helvetia rusting in the sand.

A National Trust beach reached only by a clifftop walk from Stackpole, regularly ranked among Britain's most beautiful stretches of sand.

The beach where world leaders gathered for the 2021 G7 summit, small enough to have its own railway halt right above the sand.

A working Chichester Harbour sailing hub, with the East Head dune spit curling out into the estuary mouth

Backed by Bamburgh Castle with views to the Farne Islands, on a coast Which? has named the UK's best seaside destination four years running.

A surf beach at the mouth of the River Avon estuary, part of the same stretch of coast as South Milton Sands and Thurlestone.

A remote sand spit reachable only on foot or by ferry, lined with some of Britain's most expensive beach huts.