Being an island, Great Britain has some of the most spectacular coastlines in the world. During the 1700s a fashion craze swept the country as people began going on seaside holidays to get away from the industrialized cities and relax on beaches in the relative calm of seaside towns, if only for a few days. Once the rail networks caught up in the mid to late 19th Century, the most popular seaside towns grew massively as a result of the influx in tourists. Although international air travel eventually became more accessible to the masses in the late 20th Century, seaside holidays in the UK still remain popular to this day.
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Some of these seaside towns have been growing steadily for the last 200 years and now offer a wealth of attractions. A few of the best seaside towns in the UK have been researched and detailed below for your benefit.
Blackpool has been a popular seaside tourist destination for well over 200 years, even before the first rail link in the town was constructed in the middle of the 19th Century. Although Blackpool has quite a small number of inhabitants, it was recently voted as the UK’s best seaside resort and has something for everyone. Some particular attractions to visit in Blackpool are the Pleasure Beach theme park, the Winter Gardens entertainment complex, Blackpool Tower and the Blackpool Zoo and Dinosaur Safari. The town has roughly 11 kilometers of beautiful sandy coastline to enjoy, plus more bed and breakfasts than the whole of Portugal put together!
Cornwall is an amazingly beautiful area of the United Kingdom with some of the most magnificent vistas in the whole of the British Isles. One particularly attractive town is St. Ives, located just north of Penzance. The Guardian newspaper recently named St.Ives as their choice for the best seaside town in the UK due to its eclectic mix of landscape and natural geography, combined with its cultural offerings, promising new art talent that is displayed in the St. Ives Tate Gallery and the famous Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden.
After the jewel of Lancashire (Blackpool), and the diamond of Cornwall (St. Ives), the place to go in the south east of England for a seaside retreat can only be none other than Brighton. Brighton and Hove, to give it its full name, has been a popular getaway location for Londoners for well over 150 years and is still as popular today as it was back then. Brighton is a city with a lot to give, with some of the best restaurants, theatres, clubs, pubs and bars in the UK, coupled with being surrounded by some of the most breathtaking scenery, Brighton should be an easy contender for the latest round of the ‘UK’s best seaside town’ competition.
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