OS Grid Ref: SD 159 784 - Landranger: 96 (Barrow-in-Furness) -
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Height ASL: 0 metres - CAA Limit: 60 metres
Location: Port Haverigg
Directions: Follow signs for Barrow (A 590 T) off the M6 till Greenodd where you turn right for Millom A 5092, later A 595 and lastly the A 5093 into the center of Millom.
Follow the main road right at Millom railway station but take the next left signed to Haverigg.
Left again at the next T junction and then follow this road to the center of Haverigg village.
Follow the yacht masts down to the shore where there is a free car park opposite the beach cafe.
Parking: Free car park immediately behind beach by public toilets.
Facilities: Beach cafe open all day, two local pubs and village shops within 200 meters of car park. Hodbarrow nature reserve is half a mile east of the car park.
Accessibility: Short wooden staircase down to the beach from the car park.There is vehicular and wheelchair access to the beach itself via a ramp 200 meters west of the car park by the coastguards building which houses the IRB.
Flying Area: Huge, 5miles long and (tide permitting) wide expanse of beach backed by tall dunes.
Open to all winds from East through South to North West at the Silecroft end.
The beach itself is firm with fine sand and shell and seems (to the uninitiated) ideal for buggies :)
Comments: This beach is always very quiet even though there is a caravan site behind the dunes.
I have rarely seen more than a couple of dozen people on it at any one time in the ten years I have visited there and usually have the place to myself!
It has been reputedly used in the past by land yachts but I have never seen any evidence of this.
In the last war a small airfield was set up behind the dunes (RAF Millom) which is now disused and only a small museum open only at weekends is all that remains. The site now houses a windfarm and H.M.Prison Haverigg.
This is the complementary flying site to that at Roanhead which can be seen 4 miles Southeast across the sands of the Duddon estuary.
In Northerly winds, a trip around the estuary to Roanhead (22 miles by road) is a better bet.