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St Bees Beach

St Bees · CA27 0ES
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A mile and a half of sand and shingle under the red sandstone of St Bees Head, and the start of the Coast to Coast walk. Cumberland Council sets no seasonal dog ban on the sand, so this is a year-round beach; the restrictions are on the grass behind it rather than the shore.

THE SMALL PRINTNo seasonal ban on the beach. Cumberland Council Public Spaces Protection Order (No. 1) 2024 lists the St Bees "Foreshore" play area (CA27 0ES) and the Outrigg play area as dog exclusion areas (Schedule C), and the land at the Priory Church of St Mary and St Bega and Outrigg playing field as dogs-on-lead areas (Schedule B). Breach is an offence liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.4930, -3.6050
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.CUMBERLAND.GOV.UK/SITES/DEFAULT/FILES/2025-05/APPENDIX%201%20PUBLIC%20SPACE%20PROTECTION%20ORDER.PDF
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Walk SOME LIMITS

St Bees Head and Fleswick Bay

5 MI · 2H 20M · 90% OFF-ROAD

Five miles and about two and a half hours for 210 metres of climb, north from the beach along the top of the red sandstone cliffs to the shingle cove at Fleswick Bay and the lighthouse on North Head - the first miles of the coast-to-coast walk, done in reverse. It starts at the Seacote beach car park in St Bees, which is paid, holds around 200 cars and is the largest on this coast; St Bees station on the Cumbrian Coast line is ten minutes' walk inland. The clifftop is the honest warning: an unfenced 90-metre drop for three miles with the RSPB seabird colonies below, so a short lead the whole way, and the field boundaries above are grazed. Dogs on the beach itself are covered by a Cumberland Council dog control order - read the signs at the access points before you let one onto the sand.

Livestock — leads on
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