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Captain Cook’s Village and the Dinosaur Coast Staithes is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially around the harbour, Beck Mouth, and the rocky foreshore exposed at lower water. Start where Staithes Beck meets the harbour, then work the shingle and pebble beds across the small beach before checking the rock crevices and trapped pockets …
Britain’s First Seaside Resort Scarborough North Bay is a fair but worthwhile sea glass hunting beach, especially around the rocky northern end near Scalby Mills and the Sea Life Centre. White, green, and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, and amber appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, and lavender among the rarer …
Britain’s Best Beach Has a Secret Runswick Bay is a good sea glass hunting beach, particularly away from the sandy centre where rock pools, boulder fields and rougher foreshore appear towards Hob Holes and Kettleness as the tide falls. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing …
Yorkshire’s Victorian Treasure Coast Saltburn is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially east of the pier where the broad sandy beach gives way to rougher pebble and shingle below Huntcliff. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, lavender, and red …
Gothic Skies, Abbey Views and Frosted Glass Whitby is a good sea glass hunting destination, especially at Tate Hill Beach and along the shoreline towards Sandsend. White, green and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, cobalt, black, lavender, red and pink also reported. Tate Hill is the more concentrated hunt, while …
The Ironstone Shore Skinningrove is a good sea glass hunting beach, particularly around the shingle patches and rock pools on the village side of the old ironstone jetty. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, turquoise, cobalt, black, lavender, red and pink also reported. It’s a quiet, beginner-friendly beach …
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 …