Beaches in Seaham, County Durham
The beach guide has 8 beaches listed in and around the town of Seaham. We have arranged these beaches in order of closest to the town first (distance in brackets).
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Seaham Hall Beach (Remand Home) (0.8 miles)
Seaham Beach is a pleasant sandy beach, with some areas of rock, which stretches on for around half a mile beyond the north of the town and harbour. It is sometimes referred to as Seaham North Beach and until 2013 it was known as Seaham Hall Beach. The beach is backed by a promenade. Behind…
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Seaham Beach (0.9 miles)
Seaham Beach is a pleasant sandy beach, with some areas of rock, which stretches on for around half a mile beyond the north of the town and harbour. It is sometimes referred to as Seaham North Beach and until 2013 it was known as Seaham Hall Beach. The beach is backed by a promenade. Behind…
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Dalton Burn Beach (0.9 miles)
The small shingle beach of Dalton Burn lies just north of Seaham Harbour Marina, about 7 miles south of Sunderland. At low tide a fair-size area of sand is exposed. Low rise cliffs back the beach and immediately behind that is the road. At the southern end of the beach, a breakwater curves around Seaham…
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Featherbed Rocks Beach (0.9 miles)
This rocky outcrop lies a short distance north of Seaham Harbour. Until the 1950s, it was home to a sea stack or arch which possibly had a passing resemblance to a four-poster bed, from which the name of this part of the coastline is likely to have derived. However, coastal erosion has taken its toll,…
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Ryhope South Beach (2 miles)
The land around the coastal village of Ryhope, south of Sunderland, is known to have been farmed for around a thousand years. Today the village has a number of pubs and is home to the Ryhope Engine Museum. The small beach here was once a popular, sandy beach, but coastal erosion has resulted in the…
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Ryhope East Beach (2.3 miles)
The land around the coastal village of Ryhope, south of Sunderland, is known to have been farmed for around a thousand years. Today the village has a number of pubs and is home to the Ryhope Engine Museum. The small beach here was once a popular, sandy beach, but coastal erosion has resulted in the…
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Hendon Beach (3.4 miles)
This urban beach is a strip of sand and shingle to the south of Sunderland Docks. The sloping beach is interspersed by wooden groynes and rocky sea defences and is backed by a sea wall above which is a promenade.
From the beach there are views over the industrial buildings of the city and port area.…
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Easington Beach (3.8 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…
