Photos:On The Beach
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County: Cumbria
Nearest Place: Dalton in Furness
Also Near: Barrow in Furness
OS Grid Ref: SD 200 756 - Landranger: 96 (Barrow in Furness) -
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Height ASL: 0 metres - CAA Limit: 60 metres
Location: Beach by the Sandscale Haws Nature Reserve
Directions: From junction 36 on the M6, follow signs for A 590 to Barrow in Furness past the roundabouts for Dalton, Askham and Barrow Hospital and, 150 meters past this turning,look out for a road off on the right signed Roanhead / Sandscale Haws.
Follow this down for a mile and a half to the the small car park.
Parking: The car park is free but often packed on hot sunny weekends.
Facilities: There is a small shop on the car park for ices, drinks and beach goods and toilets a little further back up the road.
Sandscale Haws Nature Reserve is in the dunes backing the beach.
Accessibility: Numerous and extensive boardwalks thread their way the last hundred meters or so through the dunes to the beach.
Flying Area: Large expanse at low/neap tides backed by tall dunes which form the Sandscale Haws Nature Reserve.
Even at high water there is plenty of space for sports kites anywhere along the beach with most bathers staying within a few yards of the car park.
Fine, firm sand with some shell below the high water mark.
The beach is open to the North by the car park and curves round to become Southwest facing if you care to take a two mile stroll Westward along the Cumbria Coastal Footpath.
At the western end, the tide retreats out of sight leaving a huge expanse of apparently uninterupted sand flats.
Maybe a buggy fanatic could check it out and update this report?
Comments: By Cumbrian standards this can be a popular beach in Summer with locals from Barrow and Dalton but the small
car park limits visitors. They often leave if an onshore (Northerly) breeze picks up :)
This is the complementary flying site to that at Haverigg which can be seen 4 miles Nortwest across the sands of the Duddon estuary.
In NW, N, NE winds, the beach by the car park is great and if the wind swings into the west either a walk along the beach or a trip around the estuary to Haverigg (22 miles by road) is called for.