Whitesand Bay

Not to be confused with Whitsand Bay in south-eastern Cornwall or Whitesands Bay in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Whitesand Bay is a wide sandy beach in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It stretches for one mile north from Sennen Cove.

Whitesand Bay beach is popular with surfers. Most of the time, and at high tides, the beach is divided into two: Sennen Cove beach to the south (more popular for its size, facilities and surf schools), and Gwynver beach to the north (more popular for its typically better surfing waves and walking distance of Trevedra Farm campsite). At the south end, at Sennen Cove, there are toilet facilities, a surf shop, a restaurant, and two car parks, one in a large field above the cliff, and another beside the beach. Dogs are banned on the beach from Easter Day to 1 October every year. [1]. The South West Coast Path runs along the dunes behind the beach. [2].

The bay lends its name to the Bay class frigate HMS Whitesand Bay.

Perkin Warbeck landed here at the start of the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497.[3]

References

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  2. ^ Ordnance Survey 1:25000 'Explorer' map, sheet 102, ISBN 978 0 319 24016 8
  3. ^ Payton, Philip (2004). "We Utterly Refuse ... This New English". Cornwall A History (2nd revised ed.). Fowey: Cornwall Editions Limited. pp. 111. ISBN 1904880053.