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where it creeps around the coastline near Holy
Island in Northumberland.
‘Looking towards the Farne Isles and Holy Island,
Bamburgh is a really beautiful golden beach in an
area of outstanding natural beauty,’ says Bell. If you Local seafood
love quality rock-pooling, both Holy Island and favourites
Bamburgh Beach are perfect. While you’re close by, While you’re driving around
visit Lindisfarne Castle or Bamburgh Castle, or take the coast, try these seafood
a summer boat trip to see the grey seal colony at specialities, all harvested
Megstone. Even a walk on the beach could bring close to some of the beaches
you a glimpse of dolphins, seals and eider duck. mentioned…
Finally, hugging the coastline of north Norfolk is ■Norfolk Cromer
the A149, a ticker-tape parade of picture-postcard crab, with its high
villages, gingerbread-style cottages and blink-and- white meat
you’ll-miss-them mini resorts. Cromer is a popular content, is not to
resort but we suggest you weave your way around be missed.
A dozen boats collect thethe coast to Brancaster Staithe and Titchwell Marsh
crabs from pots offBird Reserve, which has everything a bird-loving
the coast of Cromer.beachcomber might need.
■NorthumberlandPark at the visitor centre and café, then enjoy a
oysters arebeautiful walk down to the beach, past the reedbeds
grown within theand shallow lagoons of the local salt marsh. Use the
nature reserve ofbird hides to do a little bird-spotting on the way, or
the Holy Island ofhead straight to the sandy beach and the area’s
Lindisfarne, on the site ofever-changing coastline. In fact, the coast around
oyster beds established byhere is changing so quickly that the Titchwell Marsh
the monks of Lindisfarne
Coastal Change Project has already begun. Over Priory. Further south you’ll
time, the aim is to reinforce the sea bank behind the also find Craster
brackish marsh so that the freshwater life that feeds kippers, locally
caught herringthe local birds and water voles continues to survive.
slow-cured for upNow, who mentioned anything about a sandcastle? ■
to 16 hours.
■The fishing town ofFor more about Britain’s best beaches and
Arbroath, close to Lunanlocal fish, visit goodbeachguide.co.uk and
Bay, is famous for itsfishonline.org. Both websites are run by the
smokies, aMarine Conservation Society
golden brown
smoked haddock
which makes aThe route to
hearty breakfast.Holy Island
■Gower seafood doesn’t
come much more
eco-friendly than Gower
cockles. Mostly found
in the Burry Inlet, they
have been gathered byAntony Gormley’s
hand since Roman times.‘Another Place’
sculptures near Crosby
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