Our Time at Bamburgh Beach
There are beaches you visit for the sand, beaches you visit for the sea, and then there’s Bamburgh — where you keep turning around to look at the castle.
The beach itself is magnificent. A huge sweep of pale sand with enough room to walk, wander, throw a ball or simply find your own little patch of Northumberland. Even when Bamburgh village is busy, down here everything seems to spread out.
Behind the beach, the dunes give it that wonderfully wild edge we love. Climb through them and suddenly the castle appears above you, sitting ridiculously high on its rocky outcrop. Head down onto the sand and the view just gets better.
Our favourite time is when the tide is out and the wet sand catches the sky. Castle behind you, Farne Islands out to sea, dunes running along the shore — there aren't many walks where you get quite so much for doing absolutely nothing clever.
Just turn up and walk.
Heather & Sand says: One of those rare places where the famous view really is as good as everyone says.
- Good for: Long walks · Dogs · Big skies · Photography · Blowing the cobwebs away
- The sand: Wide, firm and seemingly endless when the tide is out
- The view: That castle. Obviously.
- The dunes: Wild, beautiful and worth wandering through
- H&S tip: Don’t just photograph the castle when you arrive. Walk away along the beach, then turn around. That’s the view.
- We’d go back: We already do. ❤️
Read the full story from our visit: The Castle We Thought We Knew
