Best beaches in the UK for kids

[JoshandJamie]

Am doing some research (in a hurry) and need some help. Please recommend some fab UK beaches that are ideal for kids. Any links you may have for sites on them would be even more greatly appreciated.

PS - am looking all over UK.

Three Cliffs BAy Swansea{http://westwales.co.uk/graphics/threecl2.jpgiffs BAy Swansea }

BlackpoolSands in Devon is lovely

Not neen there, but have looked at Abersoch on th Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales

Thank you all - will now go research them!

Bamburgh

Druridge Bay Cresswell

Weymouth

portstewart strand in Northern Ireland is the most beautiful beach

JackieNo - we were sitting there quite happily a few years ago, dd and dh were in the rockpools and I said 'Do you think we should move, I'm sure the tide is coming in'

naahhhh says dh - meanwhile I'm ignoring him and packing all the stuff up as the tide comes racing up the beach - in 10 minutes the tide was fully in.

another recommendation,

Llanbedrog beach North Wales

I'll be there next week - cannot wait!

Sounds scary, Lucycat - I think we've tended to just go there as an adjunct to visiting the castle, and mostly played near the top of the beach, so didn't notice.

Whitesands Bay in St David's - Pembrokeshire

Druridge Bay we went to as children and I take the children sometimes in the North East. Particularly good that you can park and there is nothing to buy if you park well, no way a child can nag because there is nothing to nag for just masses of gorgeous sand.

The other one I like in Norfolk. Holkham I think it's called again big big beach, nothing commercial at all, acres and acres of sand.
(Warmer than Druridge too)

www.holkham.co.uk/cms/Pages.asp?V=1&S=3&C=3&URL=&Page=27

I think there's even a naturist bit but I've never seen that part.

Poppit Sands in Pembrokshire - really lovely sandy beach, rock pools, life guards, toilet, nice and shallow for some way out! And lots to do round the area.

Please don't do it!

Don;t traumatise your kids forever and take them to a mediterranean beach.

They are all so so so... yuk!

West Witterings - just sand and a large kite flying field (no shops etc)

Oxwich Bay

Studland Bay

Ah yes, I took them to West W but it was sadly on that day hugely crowded and very stony. nothing like say Druridge Bay or the Norfolk Holkham one I mentioned but I may just have picked a bad bit of it.

The problem even with the glorious ones mentioned which are entirely litter free, empty and no tourists is the cold, isn't it? The best beach we've been to I can see from a photo in my office here which was in Antigua, not a single person other than the children and I on it, crystal clear clean sand, huge good surfing waves and most importantly very very warm.

Eh? Wendesdayadams? Oddly emphatic and all-encompassing judgement there. Have you really been to all of them?