Beaches in Peterlee, County Durham
- Peterlee beaches map
- The beaches:
- Denemouth South
- Horden
- Easington
The beach guide has 3 beaches listed in and around the town of Peterlee. We have arranged these beaches in order of closest to the town first (distance in brackets).
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Denemouth South Beach (1.9 miles)
Set at the mouth of the Castle Eden Dene valley Denemouth South joins three different National Nature Reserves together: the valley of the Castle Eden Dene Nature Reserve, the northern end of the Durham Coast Nature Reserve and, to the south, the Blackhall Rocks Nature Reserve. This connection results in an overwhelming abundance of wildlife…
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Horden Beach (1.8 miles)
Horden is a former mining community on the North Sea coast, about 12 miles south of Sunderland. The long beach, composed mainly of shingle and pebble, backed by grasslands and cliffs, bears testament to this industrial past. Colliery waste used to be dumped here, and there was a time when the sand was blackened by…
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Easington Beach (2.4 miles)
This small beach lies on the Durham Heritage Coast, approximately mid-way between Sunderland and Hartlepool. The terrain is a mixture of sand and shingle and the beach is backed by cliffs and dunes. There are views from the beach along the rocky coastline and out towards the North Sea. The beach, which is usually fairly…
