The yellow buttons on the map to point you to further information below on each surfing beach
| North Devon | ||
| Combe Martin | Nice little rocky bay with a sandy beach | |
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| Croyde | Flat sandy beach. Lifeguards in summer. Popular with surfers | |
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| Ilfracombe | Several beaches - Tunnels Beach (approached via a tunnel) Wildermouth Beach, Cheyne Beach, Larkstone Beach, Raparee Cove and Hele Bay have varying amounts of shale, pebbles and grey sand | |
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| Instow | A sandy beach, backed by low dunes, at the mouth of the rivers Taw and Torridge. Lifeguards in summer | |
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| Saunton Sands | One of devon's best beaches. A 3 mile curve of sand, Backed by grassy dunes and surprisingly unspoilt. Lifeguards in summer | |
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| Welcombe | Appropriately the first village in Devon, after leaving Cornwall. A lovely little beachRocky at high tide, sandy at low tide | |
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| Westward Ho | Sand and pebble beach for good bathing | |
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| Woolacombe | Lovely long flat sandy beach in this family resort | |
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| South West Devon | ||
| Brixham | Breakwater Beach, Churston Cove, Fishcombe, Shoalstone, St Mary's Bay. St Mary's is a long sandy beach, the others are mainly small shingle or pebble beaches which are relatively undeveloped | |
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| Dartmouth | Dartmouths beaches are at Blackpool Sands, Torcross and Strete Gate | |
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| Dawlish | Beaches at Boat Cove, Coryton Cove, Dawlish Warren and Shell Cove | |
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| Paignton | , Fairy Cove, Paignton Sands, Preston sands, Saltern Cove | |
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| Salcombe | North Sands, Salcombe Mouth, South sands, Splat Cove | |
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| Teignmouth | Herring Cove, Mackerel Cove, Ness Cove, Teignmouth Beach | |
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| Torquay | Ansteys Cove, Babbacombe, Beacon Covve, Corbyn Sands, Livermead
Sands, Maidencombe, Meadfoot Beach, Oddicombe, Petit Tor Beach, Preston
Sands, Redgate Beach, Torre Abbey Sands, Watcombe.
Oddicombe is probably the most attractive of the beaches around Torquay.. A cliff railway conveys bathers down fron the 240 foot sandstone cliffs to the shingle below |
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| South East Devon | ||
| Beer | A south facing sheltered cove with a sloping pebble beach | |
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| Branscombe | A two mile long gently sloping pebble beach - National Trust | |
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| Budleigh Salterton | Pebbles and sand. Littleham Cove is small, sheltered and has some sand | |
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| Exmouth | A flat sandy beach. There is also a large sheltered sandy cove at Sandy Bay | |
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| Otterton | Ladram Bayis a small south facinfg shingle cove | |
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| Seaton | Wide, south facing, gently sloping pebble beach | |
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| Sidmouth | Jacob's Ladder is a sheltered south facing, sand and pebble beach. Town beach is another south facing sand and pebble beach. Weston Mouth is a south facing pebble beach | |
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