Devon is known for it’s beautiful beaches, and who better to enjoy them with than your four-legged best friend? There is nothing better than watching your dog leap between sandy stretches and playful waves.
Wonderfully, Devon has a great range of beaches that allow dogs all year round. We have created a list of all these beaches so you can keep them to hand ready for your stay in Devon, whatever time of year you come.
Devon is known for it’s beautiful beaches, and who better to enjoy them with than your four-legged best friend? There is nothing better than watching your dog leap between sandy stretches and playful waves.
Wonderfully, Devon has a great range of beaches that allow dogs all year round. We have created a list of all these beaches so you can keep them to hand ready for your stay in Devon, whatever time of year you come.
- Anstey’s Cove - this small shingle beach is quiet, peaceful and incredibly beautiful
- Babbacombe Beach - a delightful small shingle beach set beneath the cliffs at Babbacombe Downs
- Beesands Beach - a mile-long shingle beach backed by fields and a freshwater lake
- Clovelly - a small pebble beach just below the car-free, historic village
- East Portlemouth - made up of a number of small beaches - Fishermans Cove, Smalls Cove and Mill Bay - so you can hunt down your very own secluded spot
- Elberry Cove - a romantic impressive shingle beach with beautiful cystal blue clear waters
- Fairy Cove - a little magical beach to the South of Paignton Sands, just over the Harbour wall, which is popular with families
- Fishcombe Cove - a peaceful cove surrounded on all sides by tall cliffs and wooded hillsides
- Mattiscombe Beach - a nice sandy beach on a picturesque part of the South Devon coast
- Hallsands Beach - a precarious position between cliffs and the sea
- Hele Bay - a quiet beach, ideal for relaxing with a few rock pools
- Instow - a sandy, flat beach with sand dunes at the end and a fast flowing tide
- Lannacombe Beach - a small sandy beach flanked by large areas of rock
- Leas Foot Sands - a lovely little sandy beach located in front of the Thurlestone Golf Club
- Livermead Sands - a stretch of red sand parallel to the main seafront road
- Lynmouth Beach - a shingle beach just below the village of Lynmouth
- Man Sands Beach - a wonderfully secluded pebble beach with sand exposed at low tide
- Mill Bay - a pleasant sheltered sandy beach on the east bank of Salcombe harbour
- Ness Cove - a long sandy beach, which is accessible through a tunnel from the Shaldon car park
- North Sands Beach - a large sandy beach perfect for families, with great swimming due to the safe bay
- Oyster Cove - an attractive beach which is very popular with local people
- Rockham Bay - secluded beach nestled in a bay backed by rocky cliffs
- Row Cove - sandy and largely covered with rocks.
- Scabbacombe Sands - a small pebble and sand beach which is usually quiet
- Shoalstone Beach - a small shingle and rocky beach just along the coast from Brixham Harbour
- Slapton Sands - a beautiful pebble beach that stretched for almost two miles
- Soar Mill Cove - a tiny remote sandy inlet set below the craggy black towers of Bolt Head
- St Mary’s Bay - a delightful secluded sandy beach with interesting rock formations and surrounding cliffs
- Sunny Cove - a sandy beach with relatively gentle waves so swimming is a pleasure
- Thurlestone Beach - A beautiful sandy beach in the South Hams area
- Welcombe Mouth - a large pebble and sandy beach
- Westcombe Beach - a long grey sand beach with rock pools at low tide
- Wonwell Beach - pleasant sandy beach on the east shore of the Erme river
- Wild Pear Beach - beautifully sandy, but with lots of rocks at low tide
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