Beaches

Northumberland boasts some of the most beautiful beaches in the country,
with miles and miles of vast, unspoilt and uncrowded shoreline.

It's often tricky to give directions using postcodes in rural Northumberland, we find what3words (https://what3words.com) is the easiest to follow, just enter the three words on the website or app.

Cheswick Sands

Parking: Cheswick Sands Car Park

Travel time: 20 minutes

What3Words: ///chatted.speedily.hook

Ross Sands

Parking: Roadside parking (the beach is approx. 15 minutes from parking)

Travel time: 20 minutes

What3Words: ///crisper.carbon.laminate

Bamburgh Beach

Parking: Multiple car parks on The Wynding

Travel time: 25 minutes

What3Words: ///harsh.budget.loopholes

Low Newton (Newton-by-the-Sea)

Parking: Low Newton visitors car park

Travel time: 35 minutes

What3Words: ///ferrying.desks.families

Beadnell Bay

Parking: Beadnell Bay Car Park

Travel time: 40 minutes

What3Words: ///giants.resolved.roughness

Alnmouth

Parking: Alnmouth Beach Car Park

Travel time: 45 minutes

What3Words: ///windmills.highways.dried

Longhouton Beach (Sugar Sands)

Parking: Beach side, along from Low Steads Farm

Travel time: 45 minutes

What3Words: ///lend.howler.rhino

Wild Swimming

With miles of beaches, you can’t go far wrong for sea swimming, our top picks for wild swimming would be:

• Cheswick Sands
• Baggy Pools (between Bamburgh & Seahouse ///summit.haircuts.backward)
• Sugar Sands/Howdlemont Sands

As an alternative to sea swimming, we’re only 10 minutes from the If River Till, where you can park and enter the water easily upstream from the bridge (///remaking.encrusted.templates) – but remember not to enter the water if its fast moving!

A little further way in the ingram valley is Linhope Spout, a water fall with plunge pool, once a hidden gem has become more popular but still worth the walk, you can park at Hartside Farm (///tapes.outcasts.router).