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Where English Glassmaking Began Roker and Seaburn are good sea glass hunting beaches, with the best hunting concentrated around the lower foreshore at Roker Pier, the rocky section at Seaburn’s Cat and Dog steps, and the quieter stretch towards South Bents. Green, white, brown and pale blue are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, …
The Durham Coast’s Dark Horse Blackhall Rocks is a good sea glass hunting beach for more experienced hunters, especially around the cave mouths, rock pools and trapped shingle exposed at lower tides. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, and rarer colours including cobalt, black, lavender, red, and yellow also …
Gyllyngvase, Swanpool and Maenporth Falmouth is a good area for sea glass hunting, especially if you treat Gyllyngvase, Swanpool and Maenporth as one three-beach route. Start with the rocky margins and rock pools at Gyllyngvase, check the shingle bar and rock edges at Swanpool, then spend the most time at Maenporth around its rock pools, …
Where Suffolk’s Wild Edge Begins Pakefield is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially where Lowestoft’s managed sandy frontage gives way to rougher shingle and pebble foreshore. Start at the last wooden groyne and work south, concentrating on the upper shingle bank, wrack line and pebble pockets rather than the open sand. Green, brown, and …
Dinosaur Coast, Channel Glass and Culver Cliff Yaverland is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially around the groynes and shingle ridges at the quieter northern end of Sandown Bay. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, and lavender among the …
Britain’s Most Southerly Port and the Shingle That Catches Everything Porthleven is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially along the shingle patches immediately east of the harbour and farther along towards Blue Buoy Steps. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber and turquoise appearing occasionally and cobalt blue, …
East Coast Beaches from Ramsey to Port Erin Why the Isle of Man deserves a place on your sea glass map The Isle of Man isn’t the first name on most sea glass hunters’ lists. But it should be. Sitting in the middle of the Irish Sea, roughly equidistant between England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, …
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, …
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 …