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The Complete Guide Compton Bay is a fair but fascinating sea glass hunting beach, especially around the pebble patches, sandstone ledges and rock pockets between Hanover Point and Compton Chine. Green, white, and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, and amber appearing occasionally, and turquoise, cobalt blue, black, and lavender among the …
The Complete Guide to Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Region: Norfolk, Suffolk and EssexBeaches covered: 7Coastline: North Sea The coast that keeps falling in In the eleventh century, Dunwich was one of the largest ports in England, a city with a harbour, a mint, shipyards, and somewhere between eight and eighteen churches, depending on which account …
The Complete Guide to the Jurassic Coast and the Solent Region: Dorset and HampshireBeaches covered: 8Coastlines: Lyme Bay, the Channel and the Solent A glassworks from 1616, and a coast that’s still falling into the sea At Kimmeridge Bay there is a scheduled monument that almost nobody visits for the right reason. Excavations in 1980 …
Stevenston, Girvan & Ballantrae Best For: Why the Ayrshire coast deserves a place on the sea glass map Most Scottish sea glass guides stop at the East Neuk of Fife. A few mention Cullen or Musselburgh. Almost none head west. Which is a shame, because the Ayrshire coast is doing something quietly remarkable: producing consistent, …
The Complete Guide Region: Clyde coast, Ayrshire, the West Highlands and the Black IsleBeaches covered: 5Best rated: GoodCoastlines: Firth of Clyde, Irish Sea, Loch Leven and the Moray Firth The coast that built the world’s ships and nobody hunts For about a century, roughly a fifth of every ship afloat anywhere in the world was …
A Sea Glass Road Trip from Saundersfoot to Wisemans Bridge Why this road trip – two beaches, three tunnels and a century of coal The stretch of coast between Saundersfoot and Wisemans Bridge is one of the most layered pieces of industrial landscape in Wales, and most visitors walk straight past it without knowing what …
The Complete Guide to the Welsh Coast Region: Wales, north to southBeaches covered: 11Best rated: GoodCoastlines: Irish Sea, Cardigan Bay, Celtic Sea and Bristol Channel The industrial coast that nobody hunts Wales has 870 miles of coastline and a reputation for beaches that’s built almost entirely on the wrong thing. People come for Barafundle, Rhossili, …
Five Villages, One Extraordinary Coast The East Neuk of Fife is one of Scotland’s best areas for a sea glass road trip, linking Elie, St Monans, Pittenweem, Anstruther and Crail along a compact stretch of coast. The rockier sections between the villages are generally more rewarding than the broad sandy beaches, with green, white and …
The Complete Guide to Fife, Lothian, Aberdeenshire and Moray Portobello is a fair but interesting sea glass hunting beach, especially around the rockier Joppa end, the groynes and the Figgate Burn mouth. White, green and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, turquoise, cobalt, black, lavender and occasional red also reported. It’s …
The Complete Guide to the Yorkshire Coast Region: Yorkshire and Cleveland coastBeaches covered: 7Best rated: GoodCoastline: North Sea Three treasures, one shoreline Yorkshire is the only coast in Britain where you’re hunting three different things at once, and if you come here looking only for sea glass, you’ll walk past two of them. There’s the …