North Yorkshire, England

Filey seafront slipway (Filey Park)

Launch — A slipway owned and managed by North Yorkshire Council as part of Filey Beach, with no fee or permit specific to it.

Parking — Free, unrestricted roadside parking runs along The Beach on this stretch, subject to space. A small car park at Filey Coble Landing lies about 600 metres north, and the pay-and-display West Avenue and Filey Country Park car parks are a longer walk, charging 9am to 6pm from 1 March to 31 October by cash, card or RingGo; Blue Badge holders park free.

Access — Reached on foot from The Beach, Royal Parade or Crescent Hill; no gate, height restriction, opening hours or booking requirement is published for this slipway.

Season — RNLI lifeguards patrol Filey Beach seasonally from early May to early September, daily through the main summer and weekends and bank holidays only either side of it. A seasonal dog ban applies on this stretch of beach from 1 May to 30 September under North Yorkshire Council's Public Space Protection Order. Filey Sailing Club, based at the north end of the bay, races within Filey Bay through the season with an annual regatta in July.

Regulations — North Yorkshire Council is the statutory harbour authority for this stretch of coast; the neighbouring Coble Landing harbour facility is administered separately by Scarborough Harbour Office. The water off Filey lies within the Flamborough and Filey Coast Special Protection Area, a Natural England designation extending 2km out to sea to protect nesting seabirds, within which non-licensable recreational activity is managed jointly by the site's relevant authorities. No licence, registration or permit is published for launching unpowered craft from this beach slipway.

This slipway opens onto Filey Bay, a broad five-mile sweep of sand on the North Yorkshire coast bounded to the north by the Filey Brigg headland and the seabird cliffs of the Flamborough and Filey Coast Special Protection Area. It sits on the beach's southern promenade, below the area OSM labels Filey Park.

Filey Brigg shelters the bay from northerly through to near-westerly winds, leaving it open to the south and east. At low water the beach shelves from sand into rockier ground, exposed as the tide falls and more pronounced towards the Brigg.

The water offshore lies within the Flamborough and Filey Coast Special Protection Area, a Natural England site extending 2km out to sea that protects the largest mainland seabird colony in the UK. A 2022 count recorded an estimated 166,576 breeding pairs, including large numbers of northern gannet, black-legged kittiwake, razorbill and common guillemot.

About 600 metres north, Filey Coble Landing remains a working beach launch where fishing cobles and leisure boats are still hauled up and down the open sand by tractor. Landmarks along this stretch of promenade include a row of beach chalets, a Coastwatch lookout station, and Ray Lonsdale's cor-ten steel sculpture 'A High Tide in Short Wellies', standing on the seafront since 2012.

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Angela's Tea Rooms

Cafe on The Crescent, about 200 metres north of the slipway.

Filey Brigg Country Park Camping and Caravan Site

Open to the general public, seasonal (February to early January), with both tent and touring pitches, about 1.2km north near Filey Brigg.

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Shallow or rocky

The beach shelves from sand into rockier ground as the tide falls, more pronounced towards Filey Brigg to the north.

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Limited exit

Filey Bay dries out significantly at low water, lengthening the return route back up the beach.

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Boat traffic

Filey Coble Landing, about 600 metres north, is a working launch for both fishing cobles and leisure craft, hauled up and down the open beach by tractor.

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