Atwick Beach
Photograph: Atwick Beach by Oxana Maher, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Atwick is the first beach north of Hornsea and it sits entirely outside the council's dog Public Spaces Protection Order, which names only Bridlington North, Bridlington South, Hornsea and Withernsea, so dogs are free here off lead every day of the year with no seasonal ban. Go through the village past the Black Horse on Main Street, take Cliff Lane to its end and the beach is reached by a steep and often slippery clay ramp cut into the cliff, which is remade every few years as the sea takes the last one. There is space for a handful of cars at the top and nothing else, no toilets, no cafe and no lifeguard. Turn south and you can walk the whole sand into Hornsea at low water. The cliff is soft boulder clay retreating a couple of metres a year, so keep well out from its foot and never sit under it.
