Interesting beaches (southwest England)

[nonamemummy]

The summer holidays have flown by and I’d love to take my children (aged 4 and 5) to a beach this week before they go back to school! We’d like to go to an interesting beach, maybe where we could find fossils easily or even sea glass or just somewhere abit different. Can anyone recommend somewhere good? Somewhere in the southwest. We’re near Bristol and willing to drive around 2 hours away-ish.
Thankyou!

Kilve beach is about an hour 15 from Bristol and is good for fossils, and a bit further along there are Watchet - pretty - and Minehead! We love Kilve (not good for sandcastles and swimming though - so we do Minehead after for that!)

Lynton and Lynmouth has excellent rock pools and a tidal swimming pool on the east side. There’s also a cliff railway.

Kimmeridge has very easy fossils and an amazing museum.

Clevedon has a marine pool

Thanks for the suggestions so far, will have a quick google for all these places you’ve mentioned!

Lyme Regis is brilliant for fossils.

@ShanghaiDiva Lyme Regis is actually where we were thinking of. Are they hard to find? We’ve never looked for fossils before

Charmouth?

Charmouth for fossils. There is a information centre at the beach and guided fossil walks too.

[quote nonamemummy]@ShanghaiDiva Lyme Regis is actually where we were thinking of. Are they hard to find? We’ve never looked for fossils before[/quote]
Very easy to find.
I also recommend the Whole Hog- doughnuts are amazing!

www.thewholehog.co.uk/

The fossils at Lyme are really easy to find. Head past the town beach and past the Cobb (the harbour wall), then walk along another short stretch of beach to where it becomes rocks. There are lots of huge ammonites on rocks there and if you are lucky you can pick up small rocks which may smash open to reveal more fossils. Great fun.

Lyme Regis is brilliant. Go and look into a few fossil shops first so you know what your looking for. I would say fairly easy to find small or partial fossils. Make sure you check tide times. There is also a little Sandy beach & a quay to walk along.

Dunraven Bay. Beautiful. Sand, Rockpools a plenty, shop, museum and castle.

@Ricekrispie22

Lynton and Lynmouth has excellent rock pools and a tidal swimming pool on the east side. There’s also a cliff railway.

Agreed, two very beautiful places with some interesting cliff walks, rock pools and the water powered tram . Very picturesque and not overly crowned