Beaches in and around Broadstairs

Broadstairs' horseshoe-shaped main beach, watched over by Bleak House, the clifftop home where Charles Dickens once lived and wrote.

Chalk sea stacks and fossils emerge at low tide beneath the clifftop hotel that watches over Botany Bay.

Thanet's main surfing beach, with an on-site surf school offering board and wetsuit hire plus SUP lessons.

Broadstairs' quieter alternative to Viking Bay, with better rockpooling and more room to spread out along the sand.

One of the best low-tide walking routes on this stretch, tracing the sand between Broadstairs and Ramsgate.