Beacon Lagoons and the Long Bank, Kilnsea
From the Kilnsea Wetlands car park on Easington Road this loop takes you out over the sea bank to Beacon Ponds and the shingle spit at Beacon Lagoons, then south along the bank towards the neck of Spurn before turning back inland. It is the little tern colony that makes it: the birds nest on open shingle from about May into July, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust fences and signs the nesting ground, and the Trust asks that dogs are kept on leads because ground-nesting birds read a loose dog as a predator and will abandon eggs and chicks. Kilnsea Wetlands, which you pass on the way out, requires leads outright. Underfoot it is grass, bank top and loose shingle, dead flat, with no shade and nothing to break the wind off the North Sea. Sheep graze parts of the bank, so keep the lead on past stock.
Crown & Anchor
No reviews yetCrown & Anchor is a pub in Kilnsea. It is listed here so you know it is there, but we have not yet established whether dogs are welcome — so there is no verdict on this page and no stamp. If it is your business, claim the page and tell us, and we will stamp it.
Kilnsea Beach
The North Sea shore at Kilnsea, running north from the neck of Spurn past Beacon Ponds towards Easington, is shingle over sand backed by a low sea bank rather than a proper cliff, and no council dog order touches it. The East Riding of Yorkshire Council Public Spaces Protection Order lists Bridlington North, Bridlington South, Hornsea and Withernsea and nothing else, so there is no seasonal exclusion here at any time of year. The catch is not a council order but the birds: the shingle at Beacon Lagoons holds nesting little terns and ringed plover through the spring and early summer, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust signs mark where a lead is needed, and the reserve itself asks for dogs on leads. Park at the Kilnsea Wetlands car park on Easington Road and walk out over the bank. There is nothing here at all, which is the point.
