Glamping & Holiday Cottages Near The Coast
The beaches nearest to our farm are Blue Anchor Bay and Dunster Beach, both a combination of stones and sand and a 25 minute drive from our farm. It's free to park at Blue Anchor and there's a nice cafe there called The Driftwood, it's also dog friendly all year round. Minehead is quite busy in the summer when Butlins is open so we tend to avoid it, but if you're looking for a traditional English beach experience with attractions and promenade, this beach is sandy and about half an hour from us too.
Our favourite beaches are a bit further west. Porlock Weir just past Minehead has a gorgeous harbour, stone beach, good walks and independent food places. Exmoor Adventures in Porlock offers fun activities, kayaking, coasteering, electric bikes etc. We also love Bossington - a mile of stony beach with breathtaking views, stone pill boxes and easy cliff walks. Bossington isn't for swimming as there's a strong current but you can paddle in the river near the National Trust car park.
On the west side of Exmoor Saunton and Putsborough are well worth the journey if you want to surf or boogie board, there are good cafes and surf lessons here too. If you have a National Trust card you can park at Baggy Point.
For fossils, we recommend a trip to Kilve Beach, an area of Special Scientific Interest and it's easy to find fossils here. The cliffs are layered with compressed strata embedded with fossils and there are loose fossils on the beach too. Famous Lyme Regis and Charnmouth are about an hour away if you want more fossil hunting, but are much busier beaches than Kilve.
Beer, Branscombe, Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton in South Devon are also worth visiting and are about an hour from here. Drop into the Donkey Sanctuary, Otter Valley Ice Cream or Darts Farm on your way there.
We regularly post beach photos on our Instagram page and stories, so please follow us if you want to see more photos of our favourite beaches!
Our favourite beaches are a bit further west. Porlock Weir just past Minehead has a gorgeous harbour, stone beach, good walks and independent food places. Exmoor Adventures in Porlock offers fun activities, kayaking, coasteering, electric bikes etc. We also love Bossington - a mile of stony beach with breathtaking views, stone pill boxes and easy cliff walks. Bossington isn't for swimming as there's a strong current but you can paddle in the river near the National Trust car park.
On the west side of Exmoor Saunton and Putsborough are well worth the journey if you want to surf or boogie board, there are good cafes and surf lessons here too. If you have a National Trust card you can park at Baggy Point.
For fossils, we recommend a trip to Kilve Beach, an area of Special Scientific Interest and it's easy to find fossils here. The cliffs are layered with compressed strata embedded with fossils and there are loose fossils on the beach too. Famous Lyme Regis and Charnmouth are about an hour away if you want more fossil hunting, but are much busier beaches than Kilve.
Beer, Branscombe, Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton in South Devon are also worth visiting and are about an hour from here. Drop into the Donkey Sanctuary, Otter Valley Ice Cream or Darts Farm on your way there.
We regularly post beach photos on our Instagram page and stories, so please follow us if you want to see more photos of our favourite beaches!
