Cogden Beach NT Carpark — Attraction in Burton Bradstock

Easy to find with Google maps directions. Park at the top and collect your ticket from the machine before driving down. Can get busy in summer. Charges as of Aug 17 are 50p per hour or £3 for the day (the day rate is not advertised but the time suddenly changed when i put in £3). No facilities and gravel surface. Easy 10 minute walk down to the beach but the trek back up is a little tougher as it's a long steep'ish path.

Be warned - not suitable for swimming as the shingle shelves steeply into deep water and the waves can make it impossible to get out one you are in.

Fishing seems to be all or nothing - spent 8 hours casting for mackerel from 2 hours before high tide through to low tide on a beautiful sunny day and caught nothing but a sun tan :) None of the other anglers caught anything all day. Have had great success on other days and forums suggest it fishes best on a rising tide as the light fades (I'm no expert so best to do some research)

No facilities so best to make arrangements for comfort breaks if you are going to be...

Lean in toward the windscreen of your soul, taste in your deepest mind the resplendence of our azure sphere, our realm. In magnificence atop the beauteous cloud pixies jig and jig some more. Lo, hence the crashing, infintessimal of the shore, where seabirds dwell. The spear-like gannet, the ancient cormorant (whose smile is as old as the sun), the enduring gulls and their ilk. The dust between the pebbles flies in the spray and sits, still and cold beneath. There grows tamarisk (as honey in high summer), dewy leaftops and beyond the ancient castles and haunts of...

A great little find whilst on holiday. Smallish car park that is free to National Trust members. Short walk to the beach. The beach is tiny pebbles that give way to a coarse sand. The beach is quite steep into the sea and there are warnings about this together with warnings of strong currents. Our dogs enjoyed running on sand and it was a real pleasure to see them gambol freely about. You could use this beach to walk towards Hive beach or walk the other way towards West Bexington. I would definitely...