Award winning Beaches

List of Blue Flag beaches in the UK

Keep Britain Tidy today announced that 70 of England’s beaches have been awarded the internationally recognised Blue Flag this year, a guarantee to visitors that the beach has top notch facilities, is litter free and has achieved a high standard of water quality.

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2012 Blue Flag Beaches

SOUTH EAST ENGLAND

Blue Flag beaches in Kent

Botany Bay • Joss Bay • Westbrook Bay

Blue Flag beaches in Sussex

Bognor Regis• Littlehampton Coastguards Beach •   West Wittering Beach •  

Blue Flag beaches in Isle of White

Shanklin Beach • Sandown Beach • Ventnor Bay •

Blue Flag beaches in Hampshire

Beachlands - Hayling Island

EAST ANGLIA

Blue Flag beaches in Norfolk

Hunstanton Sands • Mundesley Beach • Sea Palling • Sheringham Beach • Cromer Beach •

Blue Flag beaches in Suffolk

Lowestoft South » Lowestoft North Beach » Southwold Beach »

Blue Flag beaches in Essex

Brightlingsea Beach » Chalkwell Beach • Dovercourt Bay » Jubilee Beach » Martello Bay » Shoebury East Beach • Shoebury Common Beach » Three Shells Beach »

SOUTH WEST ENGLAND

Blue Flag beaches in Cornwall

Gyllyngvase Beach • Polzeath Beach • Porthmeor Beach • Porthminster Beach • Porthtowan Beach •

Blue Flag beaches in Dorset

Sandbanks Beach • Shore Road Beach • Canford Cliffs Beach • Branscombe Beach • Alum Chine Beach • Durley Chine Beach • Fishermans Walk Beach • Southbourne Beach • Swanage Central Beach •

Blue Flag beaches in Devon

Bigbury-on-Sea • Blackpool Sands • Breakwater Beach • Broadsands • Challaborough Beach • Croyde Beach • Dawlish Warren • Meadfoot Beach • Oddicombe Beach • Paignton Beach • Preston Beach • South Sands • Tunnels Beach • Westward Ho! Beach • Woolacombe Beach •

NORTH EAST

Blue Flag beaches in Tyne and Wear

King Edwards Bay • Tynemouth Longsands • Whitley Bay • Sandhaven Beach • Seaburn Beach • Roker Beach •

Blue Flag beaches in Yorkshire

Hornsea North Beach • Withernsea Beach • Filey Bay • Scarborough North Bay • Whitby Beach •

EAST MIDLANDS

Blue Flag Beaches in Lincolnshire

Cleethorpes Beach • Maplethorpe Beach • Skegness Beach • Sutton on Sea Beach •

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