
Also near Salcombe, Gara Rock is a hotel with staggering clifftop views. Toad Hall Cottages has some lovely holiday properties to rent in South Devon, all around Blackpool Sands, as well as in Salcombe, Dartmouth and Bigbury-on-Sea. The pontoon floating off the shore is the coolest place to be when temperatures soar, good for diving off into the bay's blue waters.Īt the back of the beach, the Venus Café is a cut above your average beach caff, serving sustainably sourced seafood and local produce, with lobster and steak making regular appearances on the menu it's open for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. (It has won awards for cleanliness no dogs allowed).

A drive through pine trees, almost reminiscent of the Amalfi Coast, brings you out onto a splendid sweep of beach.ĭespite the name - and appearance from a distance - the beach is in fact formed from the smoothest little pebbles, which makes the water astonishingly clear. The rather inauspiciously named Blackpool Sands is actually in South Devon, and it comes as a wonderful surprise.
