Mappleton Beach
Photograph: Andy Beecroft / On Mappleton Beach
Mappleton is the small beach two miles south of Hornsea where two enormous rock groynes were built in 1991 to hold the village up, and it is one of the best free dog beaches on this coast because no dog order applies to it at all. The council's dog Public Spaces Protection Order lists only Bridlington North, Bridlington South, Hornsea and Withernsea, so there is no seasonal ban and no lead requirement here on any date of the year. Park in the small council car park on Cliff Lane by All Saints Church and take the stepped ramp down beside the southern rock groyne. Between the two boulder groynes the sand builds up deep and soft, and north of them you can walk the whole way to Hornsea at low water. The clay cliff is live and slumping, so keep well out from its foot.
