‘Dizzying coastal paths, quiet beaches and dolphins’: readers’ highlights of the UK coastline | United Kingdom holidays

There are beautiful beaches, stunning views, dolphins and dizzying coastal paths between Aberystwyth to Cardigan. Follow the coast path from New Quay to Llangrannog where you can enjoy two beaches in one. Kayaking and surf are both great. Pentre Arms The restaurant offers refreshments while enjoying a scenic view.
Matt Lunt

Sunderland’s scenic parkrun

The Leas, near South Shields is a stretch of coastal grassland and limestone cliffs that are a haven of seabirds and wildflowers. Leas has footpaths, bridleways, and is popular with runners, dog walkers, and cyclists all year. It is one of the most scenic paths in the country. You can spot cormorants, kittiwakes, and fulmars on the rock stacks that line the coast. It doesn’t matter what the weather is like, I enjoy walking these paths to feel the sea breeze in my hair. A wonderful place.
Matty

The holy Crail of Fife

Fife is a peninsula that is bordered by an amazing coastal path. The area is full of wildlife, beautiful landscapes and a wide range of beaches. This area between Crail and St Andrews has a lot of beauty. There are many beautiful places to have lunch. Cambo Gardens cafe The Cheesy Toast Shack is located at East Sands near Kingsbarns. Many places are available to use as a base for exploring the area. The larch-clad log cabins are at Kinkell Byre The opportunity to relax in style is available. Further north, the forest trails and dunes of Tentsmuir.
Stevie Kirkwood

Cornwall’s Celtic rainforest

In south Cornwall, wander the banks of River Fal and Helford River through an ancient Celtic rainforest where the trees meet with the sea. This unique habitat offers a glimpse into prehistory with its lichen-covered branches, the crisp, damp air, and some of Britain’s most rare wildlife. It’s otherworldly yet strangely familiar.
Amy

Electric waves of Ynys Môn (Anglesey)

Penmon Point on the easternmost point of Ynys Môn is a great place to watch for sea birds. Trwyn Du’s lighthouse overlooks Puffin Island. If you are lucky, you may see one flying right by you. We have also seen more magic at night. When conditions are perfect, the bioluminescent plankton in the bioluminescent waves will light up electric blue as they crash onto the pebbles. The beach is a great place to grab a snack. Pilot House Cafe It is close by and offers a stunning view from its garden.
Chris Jones

Morecambe Bay has a sad and traumatic history

Consult your tide tables prior to visiting Sunderland Point in Morecambe Bay. High tide cuts off this amazing place with its mudflats, marshes and skies. I cross the causeway in May when the sea pinks (sea thrift) are flowering and the air is bright with the cries of birds – oystercatchers, curlew and redshanks. Sunderland Point, although it feels distant, was once a busy port for Lancaster’s transatlantic trade. This brought prosperity, but also inhumanity. A walk around the peninsula leads to a grave of an unidentified child slave abandoned here in 1736The visitors have painted the stones. You will be broken by its bleak beauty.
Morag Reavley

Derry is located where the River Foyle meets with the Sea.

I’ve walked my dog for four years along the same stretch of coastline and never get tired of its strangeness. Culmore Point, in Derry, is the place where Derry River Foyle and North Atlantic meet. You can sometimes see a line of water where the silty Foyle joins the North Atlantic. Beautiful old-money homes look across the water at a power plant and chemical factory. The strange, treeless landscape that is the Eglinton Embankment further downstream catches your eye. Spend a moment to remember the young men, who trained in these river beaches for the Normandy attacks a month after.
Keiran

Merseyside’s fossils, tidalflats and birds

You can walk from West Kirby, Wirral to the uninhabited Little Eye, Middle Eye and Hilbre Island. These islands are a series of red sandstone formations that offer nothing but stunning nature. In the summer, you can see grey seals pulling themselves onto sandbanks and three different types of terns darting by (common tern, little tern, and sandwich tern). Pay attention to skylarks, meadow Pipits and other birds. Search for the Triassic Chirotherium’s footprint. Check tide times and, for an extra-awesome experience, return when the sun is setting low behind the distant Welsh mountains.
Sarah

Cycle by the Sea in Aberdeenshire

Cycling through the countryside North East Coastal Trail My idea of heaven is to cycle from Portsoy in Aberdeenshire to Macduff. Cycling through picturesque fishing villages, you’ll pass by historic harbours and stunning coastal scenery. On the route, I’ve seen dolphins and porpoises. There’s a small island just outside Macduff on a rocky coast. an old tidal pool at Tarlair. The art deco pavilion, though no longer in use for swimming is a great place to stop and refuel. While there, take a short wander to the secluded Salmon Howie beach tucked behind the cliffs – it’s such a beautiful spot.
Peter Diender

Winning tip: fin-du-monde vibes in East Yorkshire

As a young child, I loved to read Z For ZachariahI imagined a landscape that had the same fin-du monde energy as the East Yorkshire beaches from Ulrome up to Bridlington. This stretch of Holderness is not the Norfolk chalkboards with iced lattes and shakshuka, nor are there the monastic ghosts further north. But if six miles of uninterrupted beach walk – in the company of nothing more glamorous than pure air, weather and proper decay (not the genteel sort) – is your thing, this is a place you should visit. Morcheeba music optional. Guaranteed tired legs and a clean soul.
Eliza Ainley