East Riding of Yorkshire, England

North Beach slipway, Bridlington

Launch — A slip running from North Marine Promenade down onto North Beach, a sand-and-shingle beach at the foot of the Flamborough cliffs.

Parking — North Marine Drive Car Park, immediately above the slip: 149 standard spaces, 8 disabled bays and 6 EV charging points, pay-and-display via MiPermit, charges apply 8am to 6pm daily, no height restriction.

Access — The slip runs off the publicly accessible North Marine Promenade onto council-owned foreshore, with no gate, barrier or opening hours published for it.

Season — A bathing-season dog exclusion covers this stretch of North Beach from 1 May to 30 September each year, and RNLI lifeguards patrol the beach seasonally through the summer months.

Regulations — East Riding of Yorkshire Council permits paddleboards to launch from the beaches, provided a safe distance is kept from other water users; personal watercraft must stay 300 metres offshore except when launching, and an 8-knot speed limit applies to craft within 300 metres of mean low water. The inshore waters here fall within the Flamborough and Filey Coast Special Protection Area, which protects the seabird colony out to 2km offshore.

A slipway off North Marine Promenade on Bridlington's North Beach, a short distance north of the harbour. Bridlington Bay is a broad, shallow North Sea embayment in the lee of Flamborough Head, the chalk headland a few miles to the north-east that shelters the bay from northerly winds and carries the largest mainland seabird colony in the UK. The beach here forms the shoreward edge of the Smithic Sand, and its shoreline is defended by a sea wall and wooden groynes.

Bridlington Bay

East of the bay, the Smithic Sand runs out to the Smithic Bank, a shoal with least depths of around 2.5 metres that breaks in strong easterly and south-easterly winds but otherwise takes the edge off the sea entering the bay. Further out, the stream accelerates to around 3 knots at springs off Flamborough Head to the north-east, with overfalls where wind runs against tide. Bridlington Harbour, a short walk south along the front, is one of the UK's largest lobster ports: in 2019 it landed £10 million of shellfish, including 311 tonnes of lobster, 2,669 tonnes of crab and 572 tonnes of whelks.

The cliffs running north from here towards Sewerby and Flamborough hold the largest mainland seabird colony in the UK: the Flamborough and Filey Coast Special Protection Area recorded 166,576 breeding pairs in its 2022 count, including 13,125 pairs of gannet.

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Beach cafe

A cafe on the seafront promenade, a short walk south-west of the slip.

North Bay Leisure Park

A holiday park on Limekiln Lane, about 800m north of the slip, taking short-break lodge and caravan bookings from the public alongside private ownership.

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Conditions to check

Tidal flow

The tidal stream in Bridlington Bay is weak, rarely reaching 1 knot at springs, flooding south and ebbing north; slack water does not coincide with local high water.

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Shallow or rocky

North Beach is over 300 metres wide at mean low water on a gentle 1:38 slope with a ridge-and-runnel system, so the water withdraws a long way at low tide.

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Boat traffic

Bridlington Harbour, immediately south of this beach, carries fishing and tripper-boat traffic.

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