Croyde and Saunton: North Devon's Surf Coast
South West, England
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Croyde and Saunton: North Devon's Surf Coast
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Croyde is the North Devon surf village, on the South West Coast Path under the National Trust headland at Baggy Point, and since 1999 it has held the GoldCoast Oceanfest surf and music festival on the weekend nearest the summer solstice — though the festival is taking 2026 off and is due back in June 2027. Round the corner at Saunton Sands the beach is long, flat and unusually exposed to the west, which makes it a favourite longboarding beach; until the RAF retired its Hercules in 2023, the beach was cordoned off a few times a year for them to practise landing on the sand.
Required Activities
1
of 4
Surf or take a lesson on the beach break at Croyde
2
of 4
Ride a longboard on the long open face of Saunton Sands
3
of 4
Walk out round Baggy Point on the coast path
4
of 4
Walk into the dunes of Braunton Burrows, the core of the North Devon Biosphere
Surf or take a lesson on the beach break at Croyde
Ride a longboard on the long open face of Saunton Sands
Walk out round Baggy Point on the coast path
Walk into the dunes of Braunton Burrows, the core of the North Devon Biosphere
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