Sandymouth Beach

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Sandymouth is a beach three miles to the north of Bude, Cornwall, England. It is a National Trust property. The beach has spectacular cliffs and rock formations, and has a broad sandy beach below the cliffs. The beach lies between two headlands, Steeple Point and Menachurch Point, close to the small settlement of Houndapit.

The seabed off the coast of Sandymouth Beach slopes sharply, and as a result the beach has a strong surf. The area around Bude has a long history of surfing, and Sandymouth Beach is one of the most popular surfing beaches on the north Cornwall coast.

Sandymouth is busy throughout the tourist season but according to http://www.ivyleafcombe.com/e.beach.htm: The busiest time at Sandymouth is an "August day".

Sandymouth Beach is a National Trust owned area of land that is considered by most geographers as a "honeypot site", so called because tourists flock to it like bees to honey. This can be perceived as a good situation and a bad one. It is good because it brings more money to the area and to the National Trust. However because of the large amounts of people it attracts it can get destroyed by the very thing it needs to keep going.