Best Places for Family Holidays with Young Kids
The West Country offers great family beaches ideal for building sandcastles or exploring rock pools and safe natural swimming pools. Local farm attractions have many great facilities with ball pools, soft play areas and safe zones for toddlers or experience feeding the animals.
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Westward Ho!
Named after the famous Charles Kingsley novel “Westward Ho!” and the only place in the British Isles with an exclamation mark. Westward Ho! is famous for it’s miles of long sandy beach and backed by a pebble ridge, this huge expanse of beach is used for a host of activities including kite surfing, sand boarding, surfing, cricket, volleyball & much more.
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Burnham-On-Sea
Burnham on Sea is a coastal resort with a very distinctive nine-legged lighthouse and seven miles of sandy beach. The lovely promenade that overlooks Bridgewater Bay has stunning views as far as Wales, across the Bristol Channel. Burnham itself is a thriving market town with a mix of high street stores and some interesting little traditional shops.
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Boscastle
Boscastle is a traditional picturesque village hidden in a steep sided valley where the river Valency and Jordan meet and enter the beautiful natural harbour. The village green is the focal point for the whole village with summer fetes and fairs. Within the harbour area are craft & gift shops, a former watermill, tea gardens and a Museum of Witchcraft.
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Bude
Bude is situated on the Atlantic Heritage Coast and has been attracting visitors since the Victorian times. Approximately 8 miles from the North Cornwall/Devon border it is an ideal location with which to explore the surrounding unspoilt coastline and superb sandy beaches. It was notorious for the wreckers in the 19th Century when many shipwrecks came to ground off the rugged coast.
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Falmouth
With the third deepest natural harbour in the world, Falmouth has a maritime history second to none. With the foreboding Pendennis Castle built by Henry 8th guarding the entrance to the port town, Falmouth grew in importance over the centuries and today is still the starting point for many world wide seafaring challenges, most recently with Ellen Macarthur, as well as being a port of choice to many cruise lines.
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Barnstaple
This beautiful historical town of Barnstaple is nestling in the well-known valley of The River Taw. With fantastic scenery and natural wildlife the River Taw begins at Dartmoor National Park and flows through the Tarka country before reaching the sea at the Taw- Torridge Estuary. From Barnstaple you can easily reach the moorlands of Dartmoor and Exmoor which is perfect for walking and exploring yet situated within minutes from a coastline that offers outstanding beaches and cliff walks.
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Weymouth
Founded as a ‘resort’ by King George III in the 18th Century Weymouth is situated approximately halfway along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, a 95-mile stretch of coastline famed for its varied geology and unique landforms. It offers a beautiful sandy beach with golden sands and a historic fishing harbour with an intriguing ‘lifting’ road bridge and a shopping centre only yards from the beach.
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Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis, a coastal town in West Dorset is well known for ‘The Cobb’ a harbour wall full of character and history, featured in Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion and the film The French Lieutenant’s Woman; it now provides a breakwater to protect the town from storms. Surrounded by beautiful coastlines and countryside plus famous for it’s striking geology and fossil finds, Lyme Regis has now been awarded World Heritage Coast status.
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