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9 Best Beaches In East Yorkshire
Nine records, though Bridlington Beach and Bridlington South Promenade describe the same seafront from two angles, so eight distinct stretches is closer to the truth. They divide cleanly. The town beaches have something behind them — Bridlington Beach and Hornsea Beach put shops, food and toilets within reach of the sand. The rest do not. Fraisthorpe Beach, Skipsea Beach, Tunstall Beach and Mappleton Beach are field-edge shores where a car park and a way down to the water is all the infrastructure there is, and Danes Dyke Beach is reached through woodland instead of off a promenade.
Top beaches in East Yorkshire
Showing 1–9 of 9
BeachesBridlington Beach
BeachesDanes Dyke Beach
BeachesMappleton Beach
BeachesBridlington South Promenade
BeachesFraisthorpe Beach
BeachesTunstall Beach
BeachesHornsea Beach
BeachesSkipsea Beach
BeachesSpurn Head Beach
Let that split decide, ahead of any rating. A day with a two-year-old runs on toilets and hot drinks; a day with an eight-year-old who wants an empty beach to themselves runs on the opposite. Nothing on this list carries recorded admission information, which reflects gaps in our data and says nothing about the beaches themselves, so check parking and access with the site itself.
Beaches in East Yorkshire: FAQs
Is nine an honest count of beaches?
Not quite. Two of the entries cover one seafront — the beach and the promenade above it — which makes the real figure eight separate places to stand. That is worth knowing if you are working through the list instead of picking one, because arriving at what you believe is a new beach and recognising it from last month is a familiar sort of disappointment.
What do the quiet beaches actually offer?
Assume nothing beyond the sand itself. At Fraisthorpe Beach, Skipsea Beach, Tunstall Beach and Mappleton Beach the working assumption should be a car park, a path or steps down, and then the shore. No toilets you can rely on, nothing to buy, no lifeguard. For families who bring everything with them that is the appeal and not the drawback, but it wants to be a decision made at home and not a discovery in the car park.
Where do we go for the full seaside day?
Bridlington Beach picks itself, with the town at its back and Bridlington South Promenade covering the same seafront in our listings. Hornsea Beach is the smaller version of the same idea. Both give you the things that make a long day with children workable: somewhere to eat, somewhere to change, and something to do in the half hour after the sand has stopped being interesting.
Danes Dyke does not sound like a beach.
It is a shore you reach through a wooded ravine and not off a road, which makes the approach part of the outing and rules it out for anyone with a pushchair unless they have checked the path first. Older children generally love the walk down. Take proper footwear, allow for the climb back up when everybody is tired, and go in expecting a cove, not a wide sandy resort beach.