Please could you recommend a campsite (tent) near a coastline or on a coastline of the UK. My two eldest sons are doing coastlines for GSCE geography. We are used to quite basic camping so don't need a fancy site but it would be nice to be somewhere dramatic or beautiful or both. Children are 9-15. Thank you
There are lots! You could use Camp Site Search to find many of them, but Shell Island springs to mind - estuary, harbour, low cliffs, dunes, on-site shops, pub etc at "Europe's largest campsite" (Bank Holidays probably best avoided if possible though!)
Quite a few nice ones on the Mumbles near Swansea.
Having said that ,Britain has lovely coastline all around.
As Hacksaw Bob recommends, use the campsite search.
Regards,
Greg
One of the things that had me looking at Islay (apart from the wildlife and peaty whisky) was the remote and stunning views that Kintra Farm seems to offer. Heading that way in May 2017.
The reviews suggest a fickle owner and many rules. Seems if you behave you are OK but woe betide if not!
For wild marsh, acres of sand, a very close shingle spit, High Sand Creek campsite at Stiffkey, Norfolk, is right on the edge of the marsh with direct access. An excellent example of a spit at Blakeney Point (with boat trip to see the seals), and within a short drive, coastal erosion at Weybourne - see where the houses are almost falling off the edge of the cliff, ice age fossils at Runton (see the skeleton of a hairy mammoth found there in Cromer Museum), sandstone cliffs from Weybourne to Cromer and beyond (Runton is a good place to view them, along with coastal defence systems, groynes etc.)
Dune and dune systems at Wells and Holkham (magnificent beaches).
Fishing quay at Wells, crab fishing boats from beach at Cley (summer).
Also slightly inland features of the ice age which is responsible for Norfolk's coastline at Blakeney - the Blakeney Esker, and knowledgable explanations at the Cromer museum.
Totally different coastline from the chalky cliffs of the South Downs / Beachy Head / Birling Gap (Norman's Bay CC campsite right on the beach is a good location, but not a very 'wild' site).
Or what about the 'Jurassic coast' - Chesil beach, a spit, Lulworth Cove and Durdle Dor (classic Geography features), fossil hunting at Charmouth, Lyme Regis and Kimmergidge. People rave about Eweleaze Farm campsite in Dorset, but I haven't been.
Red Bank Farm, Bolton le Sands. Right on the edge of Morecambe Bay with it's diverse bird life, quicksands, and tidal bore. Friendly, inexpensive informal site. Views of the Lake District across the Bay.
Not sure where you live? Lots of lovely coastal campsites in Cornwall. Gwithian Farm campsite near Hayle, for example. Just down the road from the dunes and the beach- and some impressive coastal erosion going on (don't sit under the cliffs!) My children's primary school class went there for a field trip when they were learning about coastlines...
I agree - the Dorset Jurassic Coast is great for geography. As an A level student I went there on a school trip.
We camped at East Fleet Farm in 2015, which overlooks Chesil Beach. Great family site and will be going back in 2017.
Charmouth C&CC is also a nice site and close to the fossils at Charmouth, we stayed there in 2014.
Jim
Golden Cap near Bridport is only a hundred yards or so from the beach, great for fossilling. Nice pub virtually on the beach for the grown-ups!
Three Cliffs Bay on the Gower is wonderful. Great views and a track (steep) direct from the campsite to the beach. It has cliffs, rocks and a little river running into the sea.
I can see quite a lot of camping trips coming out of this project because we have such a diverse coastline! Like others, it would probably be helpful to have some idea of whereabouts you're based.
I'd hazard a guess that the lads are going to have to provide examples of coastal erosion and deposition and the Jurassic coast is good for both of these, the latter being Chesil Beach with the Fleet behind it. Agree with North Norfolk for the same reason, though a bit less dramatic in scenery terms, so I'm with Deborah on those two. They may also need to consider things like raised beaches and deep sea lochs and west coast of Scotland is best for that. Culbin sands east of Inverness are, IMHO, the best site in the UK for developing sand spits. Gower and Pembrokeshire coast fantastic and if you can extend it round to Cardigan Bay you can take in deposition features too like the dunes at Borth.
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