Most of the Dorset coast is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The ‘Jurassic Coast’ in Dorset runs from/to Lyme Regis to/from the headland around Swanage Bay and Studland Bay and is awesome.
The beaches are different to those of Cornwall and Devon. For one, there’s a lot less sand and a lot more shingle. A similarity is their popularity. We travel [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Top 10 beaches in Dorset
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Top 10 beaches in North Devon
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We’ve researched and photographed many of the beaches along the Atlantic Coast of Cornwall and Devon and here are our suggestions as to the top ten beaches in North Devon. Some of them are magnificent and we’d place them among the best on offer in the UK. We’ve excluded those in Exmoor National Park and on the Hartland Peninsula as these [...]
Top 10 Things To Do on The English Riviera
Posted in 1 on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This surprised us: The English Riviera is exceptional.
If you’ve never visited, The English Riviera is a stretch of coastline just over twenty miles long in Devon. To its south is the South Devon AONB. Major destinations include Torquay, Paignton and Brixham. It’s also the world’s first urban Geopark which means it has a unique geological history spanning 400 million years.
We [...]