Vio In</tle><rect fill="rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)" height="40" width="50" x="0" y="0"></rect><polygon fill="rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)" pots="52 12 68 2 68 38 52 28"></polygon></svg></div><div style="font-fay:Roboto-Regular, Roboto-Regular-fallback, sans-serif;font-size:12px;le-height:13px;flex:-1;font-weight:400;letter-spacg:0.6px;marg-left:5px;paddg-top:1px;lor:rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)" class="tc-text__TcText-sc-15igzev-0 vio-label__VioLabelText-spiidi-0 cWvqEF">BEST BEACHES 2023</div></div></div><h1 role="headg" aria-level="1" class="rponsive__HeadleContaer-sc-3t8ix5-3 gobAhm">Why Weymouth Dorset is the UK’s bt beach 2023</h1><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 rponsive__FlagsContaer-sc-3t8ix5-1 chdcEf"></div><h2 role="headg" aria-level="2" class="rponsive__StandfirstContaer-sc-3t8ix5-8 btCHCe">For our 15th annual bt beach gui, we asked you to share remendatns. After a thorough spectn, one surprisg seasi rort England me out on top</h2></div></div><div class="rponsive__LeadAsset-sc-3t8ix5-9 hHwjtQ tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr" style="marg-bottom:20px"><figure style="marg:0"><div style="paddg-bottom:56.25%;posn:relative" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="height:100%;posn:absolute;width:100%" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="display:table;height:0;overflow:hidn;posn:relative;width:100%;paddg-bottom:56.25%" class="lcpItem"><img alt="Weymouth is the Tim and Sunday Tim Beach of the Year 2023" style="opacy:1;z-x:2;width:100%;posn:absolute;display:block" src=" srcSet=" 360w, 520w, 680w, 860w, 1200w, 1500w" fetchprry="high"/></div></div></div><figptn><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="paddg-top:10px" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="lor:#696969;font-fay:Roboto-Regular, Roboto-Regular-fallback, sans-serif;font-size:14px;le-height:19px;marg-bottom:4px;paddg-left:10px;paddg-right:10px;text-align:center" class="tc-text__TcText-sc-15igzev-0 kwFxdN">Weymouth is the Tim and Sunday Tim Beach of the Year 2023</div><div style="lor:#333333;font-fay:Roboto-Regular, Roboto-Regular-fallback, sans-serif;font-size:9px;le-height:17px;marg-bottom:0;font-weight:400;letter-spacg:0.5px;paddg-left:10px;paddg-right:10px;text-align:center" class="tc-text__TcText-sc-15igzev-0 kwFxdN">ALAMY</div></div></div></figptn></figure></div><div class="keyl__KeyleItem-sc-1s03wwf-0 keyl__ArticleKeyleItem-sc-1s03wwf-1 ktHoqV"><div style="jtify-ntent:center;paddg-top:10px;paddg-bottom:10px" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 rponsive__MetaContaer-sc-3t8ix5-6 fRXvef"><div style="flex-directn:row;flex-wrap:wrap;jtify-ntent:center" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 rponsive__Meta-sc-3t8ix5-5 dKxzdP"><a class="tc-text-lk__TcTextLk-sc-1voa8bp-0 text-lk__LkTextObj-xyehx2-0 vSslN" href="/profile/chris-haslam" style="text-ratn:unrle;font-fay:Roboto-Regular, Roboto-Regular-fallback, sans-serif;font-size:14px;le-height:17px;lor:#006699;text-ratn-le:none">Chris Haslam</a></div><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 rponsive__Separator-sc-3t8ix5-7 eNQH"></div><div style="flex-directn:row;flex-wrap:wrap;jtify-ntent:center" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 rponsive__Meta-sc-3t8ix5-5 dKxzdP"><div class="tc-text__TcText-sc-15igzev-0 rponsive__DatePublitnContaer-sc-3t8ix5-0 gKkYAl"><time dateTime="2023-07-14T05:00:00.000Z">Friday July 14 2023, 6.00am<!-- -->, </time><span class="date-publitn__PublitnName-sc-1vdpzkx-0 brXzzz">The Sunday Tim</span></div></div></div></div></div><article class="rponsive__BodyContaer-sc-15gvuj2-3 iRvTiE"><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC"><span style="lor:#1D1D1B" class="rponsive__DropCap-sc-1pktst5-1 enuiNL">T</span>his year for the first time 15 years of the Tim and Sunday Tim Bt UK Beach, we asked you, our rears, to nomate the natn’s bt. You rose to the challenge, wh persuasive arguments for more than 300 lotns. In a 4,211-e hop around the ast I vised every one of them, and I’m lighted to reveal that our Beach of the Year for 2023 is Weymouth — wng by a ntil e, not jt for the staggerg number of nomatns received, but also for the hard work that the town has put to rema the epome of the Brish seasi rort. Perhaps the only qutn is why ’s taken the rort 15 years to achieve what so many of you<span> see as the bleedg obv.</span></p><span><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">“Weymouth has everythg you need,” says town clerk Jane Bisbe. “It has lifeguards; crystal-clear waters; a wi, sandy beach; shallow waters that are safe for the kids; toilets, showers, ee drkg water; ckchairs and sunloungers; donkeys, beach volleyball urts, a dog area, and a place where you n borrow buckets and spas. The uncil also ns special events cludg fireworks, funfairs and sports ftivals. It’s an amazg place.”</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">“You have the y and the yang wh Weymouth,” says Richard Dean om Surrey. “There’s the lovely sandy beach wh s betiful view and shallow waters ial for fai and around the rner you have the harbour area, which is great for relaxg the sunshe wh a drk and watchg the world go by.”</p><div id="1.2"><div id="0ce2dac2-50ce-40a2-bdbf-d808d07514"><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 rponsive__FullWidthImg-sc-4v1r4q-4 jGJovF"><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="paddg-bottom:66.66666666666667%"><img alt="Donkeys are £5 a ri" loadg="lazy" src=" class="rponsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 fwlcWP"/><div height="100%" style="align-ems:center;background-lor:#EDEDED;bottom:0;jtify-ntent:center;left:0;posn:absolute;right:0;top:0;z-x:0;borr-radi:0" width="100%" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><svg height="to" versn="1.1" viewBox="145 50 108 120" width="100%" style="max-width:25%;max-height:50%"><g fill="none" fill-le="evenodd" stroke="none" stroke-width="1"><path d="M211.26076,54 L211.231367,54 L147.67512,54 L145,85.7081465 L146.922096,86.4489102 C146.922096,86.4489102 164.867589,68.1355181 168.301115,65.0001546 C171.728017,61.8689133 174.237132,61.0885763 176.436179,60.3527593 C180.998206,59.169681 185.977937,59.2150255 185.977937,59.2150255 L186.109581,59.2150255 L186.109581,156.560932 L169.259886,164.473953 L169.259886,166 L228.735147,166 L228.735147,164.473953 L211.889177,156.560932 L211.889177,59.2150255 L212.01751,59.2150255 C212.01751,59.2150255 216.992272,59.169681 221.558854,60.3527593 C223.757072,61.0885763 226.266601,61.8689133 229.691848,65.0001546 C233.130341,68.1355181 251.071695,86.4489102 251.071695,86.4489102 L253,85.7081465 L250.317842,54 L211.270695,54 L211.242545,54" fill="#FFFFFF"></path></g></svg></div></div></div></div><div class="rponsive__FullWidthCaptnContaer-sc-140fc-3 hADFiz"><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="paddg-top:10px" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="lor:#696969;font-fay:Roboto-Regular, Roboto-Regular-fallback, sans-serif;font-size:14px;le-height:19px;marg-bottom:4px" class="tc-text__TcText-sc-15igzev-0 kwFxdN">Donkeys are £5 a ri</div><div style="lor:#333333;font-fay:Roboto-Regular, Roboto-Regular-fallback, sans-serif;font-size:9px;le-height:17px;marg-bottom:0;font-weight:400;letter-spacg:0.5px" class="tc-text__TcText-sc-15igzev-0 kwFxdN">GRAHAM HUNT/BNPS FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">“Wonrful sand,” says Sean Hale om Boston, Massachetts. “Geo Geian archecture behd you, and the sweep of Weymouth Bay ont. It’s betiful.” Dozens of you, cludg Tonia Say om Surrey, Dave Gregg om Sta-upon-Tham Surrey and Moni Keeler om Co Durham, also mentn the Punch and Judy show — plete wh crodile — on the beach.</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC"><b>● <a href=" class="lk__RpLk-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP"> 50 bt beach the UK for 2023 revealed</a></b></p><div class="rponsive__InleAdWrapper-sc-4v1r4q-17 efmVeO"><h2 class="rponsive__InleAdTle-sc-4v1r4q-18 dIvZaR">Advertisement</h2><div style="align-ems:center;flex:1" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div id="ad-article-le"></div></div></div><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">For most, though, was the batn of first-class facili, lter-ee sands and a uncil that r — take note, Cornwall, wh your overflowg bs — wh a sense of tradn and of place, gog back generatns, that won Weymouth the crown.</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">“I love ,” says Tera Harper om Wnton, Somerset. “I first went as a child, then a teenager, then my hband and I took our children and now we take the grandchildren.”</p><div class="rponsive__InteractiveContaer-sc-4v1r4q-2 dHDm"><div id="e4410532-aa8a-436c-9043-a2644f68fc97"><div style="height:150px;posn:relative"><div height="100%" style="align-ems:center;background-lor:#EDEDED;bottom:0;jtify-ntent:center;left:0;posn:absolute;right:0;top:0;z-x:0;borr-radi:0" width="100%" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><svg height="to" versn="1.1" viewBox="145 50 108 120" width="100%" style="max-width:25%;max-height:50%"><g fill="none" fill-le="evenodd" stroke="none" stroke-width="1"><path d="M211.26076,54 L211.231367,54 L147.67512,54 L145,85.7081465 L146.922096,86.4489102 C146.922096,86.4489102 164.867589,68.1355181 168.301115,65.0001546 C171.728017,61.8689133 174.237132,61.0885763 176.436179,60.3527593 C180.998206,59.169681 185.977937,59.2150255 185.977937,59.2150255 L186.109581,59.2150255 L186.109581,156.560932 L169.259886,164.473953 L169.259886,166 L228.735147,166 L228.735147,164.473953 L211.889177,156.560932 L211.889177,59.2150255 L212.01751,59.2150255 C212.01751,59.2150255 216.992272,59.169681 221.558854,60.3527593 C223.757072,61.0885763 226.266601,61.8689133 229.691848,65.0001546 C233.130341,68.1355181 251.071695,86.4489102 251.071695,86.4489102 L253,85.7081465 L250.317842,54 L211.270695,54 L211.242545,54" fill="#FFFFFF"></path></g></svg></div></div><div></div></div></div><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">“It retas s real ‘day at the seasi’ atmosphere,” adds Gary Featherstone om Coventry. “A wonrful beach and rort.”</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">Gee III picked Weymouth as his beach of the year 1789, visg to experience the new fashn of immersn the sea. Like most wild swimmers he found impossible to be discreet about his new-found passn. “The kg bath, and wh great succs,” wrote the royal chronicler Fanny Burney. “A mache follows the royal one to the sea, filled wh fiddlers, who play ‘God save the kg’, as his majty tak his plunge.”</p><div class="group-3 hidn rponsive__NativeAd-sc-4v1r4q-14 hxnhUw"><h2 class="rponsive__NativeAdTle-sc-4v1r4q-15 kwuvZK">Sponsored</h2><div id="advert-article-native-1" data-parent="group-3" class="rponsive__Ad-sc-4v1r4q-16 fyMiTK"></div><div id="advert-article-native-2" data-parent="group-3" class="rponsive__Ad-sc-4v1r4q-16 fyMiTK"></div></div><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC"><b>● <a href=" class="lk__RpLk-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP">Bt hotels Weymouth</a> <a href=" class="lk__RpLk-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP"><br/></a></b><b>● <a href=" class="lk__RpLk-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP">Bt thgs to do Weymouth</a></b></p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">As the kg’s 12-year summer rincy turned Weymouth to the St Tropez of s time, the idle rich shed to paddle the kg’s pond, forcg the rapid transformatn of a rough ltle port. Not all saw that as an improvement. The travel wrer John Byng, later Visunt Torrgton, lamented that “Weymouth is bee the rort of the giddy and the gay where the Irish be, the gouty peer and the genteel shopkeeper blend folly and fe breedg”.</p><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 rponsive__PrimaryImg-sc-4v1r4q-3 hpWIYt"><figure style="marg:0"><div style="paddg-bottom:56.25%;posn:relative" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="height:100%;posn:absolute;width:100%" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div data-ttid="vio-ponent" style="height:100%;width:100%" class="lcpItem"><div style="height:100%;width:100%;posn:relative"><vio id="6331112036112-5436121856001-43a6c0a6-216b-11ee-9dcb-f2b0550ee564" style="height:100%;width:100%" poster=" class="vio-js" ntrols="" data-acunt="5436121856001" data-applitn-id="te" data-embed="flt" data-player="flt" data-vio-id="6331112036112"></vio></div></div></div></div><figptn><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 set-ptn__InsetCaptnStyle-la2hkf-0 cViNoX"><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="paddg-top:10px" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="lor:#696969;font-fay:Roboto-Regular, Roboto-Regular-fallback, sans-serif;font-size:14px;le-height:19px;marg-bottom:4px" class="tc-text__TcText-sc-15igzev-0 kwFxdN">Weymouth: Beach of the year 2023</div></div></div></div></figptn></figure></div><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">But what a legacy the flânrs left: the e-long plana, wh s bow-wdowed Geian gutho and palace-onted Regency townho, is the prettit urban backdrop to any beach the untry, their backs turned on the narrow lan of the medieval wharv behd them. The granur of the statue of Gee III and the boldly pated Queen Victoria Jubilee Clock on the plana offer clu to the prospery of the tim — Elizabeth II, for parison, got a Gee Ezra ncert for her Platum Jubilee.</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">As the rich drifted away, the poor me , and on a cloudls summer morng ’s dizzyg to ntemplate the anticipatn and expectatns of the lns who have holidayed here over the past 234 years.</p><div class="rponsive__InleAdWrapper-sc-4v1r4q-17 efmVeO"><h2 class="rponsive__InleAdTle-sc-4v1r4q-18 dIvZaR">Advertisement</h2><div style="align-ems:center;flex:1" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div id="ad-article-le-1"></div></div></div><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">Their foc was always the beach: a e and a b of what hundreds of you told me is the bt stlg sand the untry, slopg gently to a sheltered bay that has no shore break and th no rip currents and epens so gradually that I wad for five mut to get thigh ep. The ck chairs are £2.50 and wdbreaks £3.70 om the Beach Office. Pedalos, kayaks and paddleboards are also available for hire, and Melanie Llewellyn’s beloved donkeys are £5 a ri. The Seaont Superloo serv a special mentn: 18 unisex loos — big enough to change — three fully accsible loos, a fay room and outdoor showers, all cleaned regularly throughout the day.</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">“Take a boat trip around the bay and Portland Harbour,” suggts Amanda Stonham om London, who also remend “top homema ice cream by Rossi’s, cludg vegan and tradnal fav like Knickerbocker Glory and Banana Spl” — pl at least five award-wng chippi; my picks are the Marlboro Rtrant on St Thomas Street — ltle changed sce 1974 () and Bents on the quaysi ().</p><div class="rponsive__InteractiveContaer-sc-4v1r4q-2 dHDm"><div id="a5bf36a6-25a5-4b18-8ce5-5f2ff67bce"><div style="height:150px;posn:relative"><div height="100%" style="align-ems:center;background-lor:#EDEDED;bottom:0;jtify-ntent:center;left:0;posn:absolute;right:0;top:0;z-x:0;borr-radi:0" width="100%" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><svg height="to" versn="1.1" viewBox="145 50 108 120" width="100%" style="max-width:25%;max-height:50%"><g fill="none" fill-le="evenodd" stroke="none" stroke-width="1"><path d="M211.26076,54 L211.231367,54 L147.67512,54 L145,85.7081465 L146.922096,86.4489102 C146.922096,86.4489102 164.867589,68.1355181 168.301115,65.0001546 C171.728017,61.8689133 174.237132,61.0885763 176.436179,60.3527593 C180.998206,59.169681 185.977937,59.2150255 185.977937,59.2150255 L186.109581,59.2150255 L186.109581,156.560932 L169.259886,164.473953 L169.259886,166 L228.735147,166 L228.735147,164.473953 L211.889177,156.560932 L211.889177,59.2150255 L212.01751,59.2150255 C212.01751,59.2150255 216.992272,59.169681 221.558854,60.3527593 C223.757072,61.0885763 226.266601,61.8689133 229.691848,65.0001546 C233.130341,68.1355181 251.071695,86.4489102 251.071695,86.4489102 L253,85.7081465 L250.317842,54 L211.270695,54 L211.242545,54" fill="#FFFFFF"></path></g></svg></div></div><div></div></div></div><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">There’s more sophistited dg here too, wh chef Mike Naidoo layg the foundatns for a foodie scene siar to that which turned Padstow to a powerhoe of seasi cuise.</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">After workg wh Jason Atherton at London’s Pollen Street Social, he’s opened Catch upstairs at the gra II listed Old Fish Market on the harboursi, servg an eight-urse tastg menu that pends on how lucky the rtrant’s two fishg boats — Weyfish One and Tarka — have been that day. All other gredients are grown, ught, foraged or fermented wh a 30-e radi of the rtrant — or, ed, saved om the b, wh msels too small for the plate powred for seasong, fish bon boiled down to make stock and a mment to zero waste. The absence of a menu is liberatg (no choic to be ma) and reassurg — you’re not gog to wish you’d orred what she’s havg. What you’ll all be havg uld clu a Portland crab dumplg wh same, pickled gger and crab broth; a sea bass tart wh pea puree and brown butter; or gilthead bream wh broad beans and an Isle of Wight tomato butter sce. Half of the w on the list e om Dorset, too (£95; ).</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">As the Med be too hot for fort and tourists migrate to more northerly latus, Weymouth uld be on the cp of a new goln age, brgg the giddy and the gay, the Irish be, the gouty peer and genteel shopkeeper shg back. Gmpy John Byng would not approve.<br/></p><h3 class="rponsive__Headg3-sc-4v1r4q-10 dxCaTt">How we judged The Tim and Sunday Tim Bt UK Beach 2023</h3><div id="1.25"><div id="54105ef9-61a3-4b24-9dfc-aadfc536b62c"><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 rponsive__FullWidthImg-sc-4v1r4q-4 jGJovF"><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="paddg-bottom:66.66666666666667%"><img alt="The shallow waters at Weymouth are ial for children" loadg="lazy" src=" class="rponsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 fwlcWP"/><div height="100%" style="align-ems:center;background-lor:#EDEDED;bottom:0;jtify-ntent:center;left:0;posn:absolute;right:0;top:0;z-x:0;borr-radi:0" width="100%" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><svg height="to" versn="1.1" viewBox="145 50 108 120" width="100%" style="max-width:25%;max-height:50%"><g fill="none" fill-le="evenodd" stroke="none" stroke-width="1"><path d="M211.26076,54 L211.231367,54 L147.67512,54 L145,85.7081465 L146.922096,86.4489102 C146.922096,86.4489102 164.867589,68.1355181 168.301115,65.0001546 C171.728017,61.8689133 174.237132,61.0885763 176.436179,60.3527593 C180.998206,59.169681 185.977937,59.2150255 185.977937,59.2150255 L186.109581,59.2150255 L186.109581,156.560932 L169.259886,164.473953 L169.259886,166 L228.735147,166 L228.735147,164.473953 L211.889177,156.560932 L211.889177,59.2150255 L212.01751,59.2150255 C212.01751,59.2150255 216.992272,59.169681 221.558854,60.3527593 C223.757072,61.0885763 226.266601,61.8689133 229.691848,65.0001546 C233.130341,68.1355181 251.071695,86.4489102 251.071695,86.4489102 L253,85.7081465 L250.317842,54 L211.270695,54 L211.242545,54" fill="#FFFFFF"></path></g></svg></div></div></div></div><div class="rponsive__FullWidthCaptnContaer-sc-140fc-3 hADFiz"><div class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="paddg-top:10px" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div style="lor:#696969;font-fay:Roboto-Regular, Roboto-Regular-fallback, sans-serif;font-size:14px;le-height:19px;marg-bottom:4px" class="tc-text__TcText-sc-15igzev-0 kwFxdN">The shallow waters at Weymouth are ial for children</div><div style="lor:#333333;font-fay:Roboto-Regular, Roboto-Regular-fallback, sans-serif;font-size:9px;le-height:17px;marg-bottom:0;font-weight:400;letter-spacg:0.5px" class="tc-text__TcText-sc-15igzev-0 kwFxdN">ALAMY</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">No beach the Top 50 had easy. Each was subject to a rigoro 11-pot spectn that asssed the cleanls of the sand or shgle, ease of accs, st of parkg and hygiene levels of loos and showers. I’ve spected fés, water-sports provirs and retail outlets, talked to lifeguards, ma sure that bs have been emptied and noted where dog bans are enforced.</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">Above all me water qualy. Over the past 15 years the number of people g the UK’s shore waters has spiralled — so, though, has the amount of raw sewage dumped by water pani. While the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Dea) nsirs a “sufficient” ratg to be aquate for our bathg waters, no rated se wh anythg ls than an “excellent” gradg is this gui. There are some that are listed as not rated, which have been checked to ensure no outflows discharge onto the beach, but bear md that waterurs n brg n-off to ral beach, particularly after heavy rafall.</p><div class="rponsive__InleAdWrapper-sc-4v1r4q-17 efmVeO"><h2 class="rponsive__InleAdTle-sc-4v1r4q-18 dIvZaR">Advertisement</h2><div style="align-ems:center;flex:1" class="tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr"><div id="ad-article-le-2"></div></div></div><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">Dea ratgs are based on samplg the prev year, so n only be taken as a general ditn of water qualy. For real-time rmatn check the sewage-pollutn alerts at </p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">You’ll fd no beach on the North Coast 500 Stland here. That’s not jt bee of the 50 tonn of lter that Keep Stland Betiful reports is dumped by tourists on the roadsi each month, nor the disptn to lol life ed by the crowds — ’s also the ghastly pil of human waste left at beach om Sandwood Bay to Ceannabene.</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">Wh the exceptn of the North Coast 500, though, I’ve watched UK shor bee cleaner, better managed and more cherished each year sce 2009. Thoands of small improvements by dividuals, small enterpris, chari and lol thori have all ntributed to the nsistent improvement our astal esystem.</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">Beach-cleang statns set up by the 2 Mute Foundatn — offerg lter-pickg equipment — are monplace, and beach-toy box are now poppg up, allowg kids to borrow a recycled bucket and spa rather than buyg new on, savg plastic pollutn.</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">The Royal Natnal Lifeboat Instutn has expand lifeguard ver om 26 beach 2001 to 240 this summer, and cuts to verge-mowg regim by uncils cludg Ceredign, Cornwall, Devon and Pembrokhire have turned astal rout to wildflower garns.</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">Seasi dg has been transformed across the untry too, wh fés such as Harry’s Shack Portstewart, the Hidn Hut Porthcurnick, Runwayskiln at Marlo Sands, the Landg at Beadnell Bay and the Barn Café at the Sands mpse Gairloch leadg the way champng h lol produce and seafood.</p><p class="rponsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC">Whether the sun is shg or not, the UK ast is the most betiful on Earth. 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