Please rate these south coast locations for surf and or classiness please!

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just found this list of sth coast surf locations. If anyone is into surfing please can you rate the top ten for surfing, then the top ten for character or classiness of resort.....or let me know if there is a nice inland village nearby if the resort is pants. Want to take the kids surfing near London and clearly know nothing of the sport or resorts. Here is the list, boscombe, broad stairs, camber sands, chap mans pool, durlston, east withering, west withering, Eastbourne, fair light, folkstone, Hastings, hayling island
, high cliff, Kim drudge, little am ton, mupebay ports lade, ramsgate, shoreham, sth lancing, southbourne,

There is relatively little surfing on the south coast and the beaches between Camber Sands and Littlehampton are shingle not sand. Personally would n't bother with Eastbourne, Hastings, Portslade (which is really part of Hove) as resorts

Thanks Lizs don't expect anything fab just a good start point for 10 & 12 year olds on a weekend from London .... Getting to west country not an option for us..... Any ideas on the best of a bad bunch.

I don't know anything about surfing so forgive me if I'm wrong but I'm sure I read somewhere that they have built some fake reef kind of thing in Boscombe to give an appeal to surfers. Boscombe is up and coming as a resort and just a stones throw from Bournemouth/Sandbanks.

I'm just about to run out of the door, but don't even consider Boscombe. The artificial reef has ruined the surf and it's started to collapse - there are now gaps between the sandbags big enough to be (potentially) sucked into. The company who built the reef essentially scammed the council and are being taken to court over it as all of their 'reefs' have been disasters.

I've got very little experience of surfing on the south coast, but www.surf-forecast.com and magicseaweed.com might be able to provide some useful information. One thing to keep in mind is that summer surf in the UK is never brilliant or as reliable in the winter, and it's hardly much warmer .

I live in Kent not sure you will get much surfing anywhere around this coast, but anyway don`t think of Folkestone it is a dump. Broadstairs is absolutely lovely, as is Deal where I live, it can get quite rough in the channel!

Thanks got the list from surf forecast.com.....bit dZisapointing if they are suggesting these are surf resorts? But maybe it just depends n the weather

Surfing on the south coast? Eh? Don't be daft. You need to go west.

Sorry not helpful

I wouldn't do Chapmans Pool, to isolated if anything goes wrong.

to be fair i have seen people surfing off brighton beach,

but um, it didn't look very successful!

none of them are really surf resorts tbh, but that isn't to say that your kids wouldn't still enjoy it.
the witterings are lovely beaches (no resort tho)

Not sure if this website just covers Devon or not but magicseaweed is one that gives info on surfing. Worth a try anyway.