Saunton SandsA RAF C-130K Hercules landing at Saunton Sands
Saunton Sands is a beach near the English village of Saunton on the North Devon coast near Braunton, popular for longboard surfing.[1] Beyond its southern end, Crow Point, England is the mouth of the River Taw estuary.[2] It is part of the Taw-Torridge estuary Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is at the centre of the UNESCO-designated North Devon's Biosphere Reserve, where Braunton Burrows lies at the heart.
Saunton Sands Hotel overlooks the beach at the northern end. The beach is cordoned off a few times a year and the beach used as an airstrip for military transport planes, usually Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the Royal Air Force, to practise STOL beach landings and take offs.[3] Flying kites is prohibited, accordingly, on part of the beach.[4]
Saunton Sands is popular with surfers because the beach is long, an unusually exposed westerly, and provides space for large groups. The beach has no life guards and is known to have dangerous riptides. Swimming here is dangerous and has resulted in many coast guard call outs.
On 3 August 1990, a temperature of 35.4 °C (95.7 °F) was recorded at Saunton Sands, which is the highest temperature recorded in the Devon and Cornwall region.[5]
SauntonSands is a beach near the English village of Saunton on the North Devon coast near Braunton, popular for longboard surfing. Beyond its southern...
the first "new style" UNESCO-designated Biosphere Reserve. Its beach SauntonSands is part of the Taw-Torridge Estuary. In 1994 termites, of the species...
the Atlantic Ocean at the west of the parish at the large beach of SauntonSands, one of the South West's international-standard surfing beaches. The...
between the steeply sloping headlands of Saunton Down, Baggy Point and Morte Point. The coastline between SauntonSands and Baggy Point includes cliffs rising...
Three-and-three-quarter-mile-long (6.0 km) SauntonSands is 2⁄3 mile (1.1 km) to the south, and 1.8-mile-long (2.9 km) Woolacombe Sands, divided into Putsborough and...
of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The wide expanse of SauntonSands, which takes its name from Saunton, merges into the Braunton Burrows Site of Special Scientific...
cover for A Momentary Lapse of Reason, which featured a row of beds on SauntonSands. For The Division Bell, he photographed two 3-metre (9.8 ft) high heads...
embracing the character's fictional world. Location shooting took place at SauntonSands beach, Devon, in early September 2021, and at Piccadilly in the City...
The cover shows hundreds of hospital beds assembled in July 1987 on SauntonSands in North Devon, where some of the scenes for Pink Floyd – The Wall were...
art director Simon Holland. The North Devon coastline, specifically SauntonSands and Braunton Burrows, was used for the bulk of the location shooting...
Taw to the south and protected from westerly maritime influence by SauntonSands and Braunton Burrows. Its key characteristics include; open flat landform...
1985 at Saunton Golf Club, near Braunton, North Devon. Source: "2011 LET Media Guide". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 23 September 2020. "Sands International"...
conditions are useful to all disciplines. The Royal Air Force sometimes use SauntonSands to practice STOL beach landing and take off with the Lockheed C-130...
Down. David and Martha United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the SauntonSands, Devon with the loss of all hands. Desirée France The smack was driven...
18263. London. 6 April 1843. col E, p. 8. Larn, Richard (1977). Goodwin Sands Shipwrecks. Newton Abbott: David and Charles. p. 87. ISBN 0-7153-7202-5...
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