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A SEASIDE municipality successful Scotland with the country's smallest harbour has been named the champion spot to unrecorded successful the UK.
Located successful East Lothian, conscionable 30 minutes from Edinburgh, North Berwick is simply a quaint seaside municipality with 8,000 people.
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Its residents person crushed to observe due to the fact that the quiet seaside town was named the champion spot to unrecorded successful the UK successful 2024 by The Sunday Times earlier this year.
The paper analysed factors similar schools, transport, culture, greenish spaces and broadband velocity to sanction the UK's astir livable places.
North Berwick took the archetypal spot acknowledgment to its casual transportation to Edinburgh, which is conscionable 30 minutes distant by train, its thriving precocious thoroughfare of autarkic shops and its assemblage spirit.
The seaside municipality is backed by a fig of sandy beaches, including West Beach and West Bay Beach.
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Beach-goers who privation to opt for determination quieter, should caput to Seacliff Beach to the eastbound of North Berwick.
The Scottish Tourism Board describes it arsenic a "hidden gem" and "largely unspoilt".
Seacliff Beach is simply a private beach, which means beach-goers volition request to wage to visit, with immoderate holidaymakers citing a £5 parking complaint successful online reviews.
Despite having to wage to visit, the formation remains fashionable with surfers and canine walkers.
The tiny formation besides has a tiny sandstone harbour that's thought to beryllium the smallest of its benignant successful the country.
For wildlife enthusiasts, there's besides the Scottish Seabird Centre - an award-winning tourer attraction wherever visitors tin ticker wildlife done cameras connected section islands.
On the cameras, wildlife lovers tin spot gannets and puffins connected the Isle of May National Nature Reserve, the biggest puffin colony connected the eastbound seashore of Britain.
On-site, there's besides the Seabird Café, which has a ample seaside prima platform and a acquisition shop.
Seasonal vessel trips astir 3 neighbouring islands besides run betwixt April and September.
North Berwick is besides location to food and spot shops, crystal pick parlours, quirky tearooms, java shops and autarkic shops.
Other attractions see playgrounds, tennis courts and neighbouring golf courses.
Overnight stays successful North Berwick don't travel cheap, with edifice rooms successful the municipality from £150 per night.
There are plentifulness of different little-known seaside towns and villages to sojourn successful Scotland, including Gearrannan, which consists of 9 restored accepted thatched cottages that place Garenin Bay successful the Scottish Outer Hebrides.
The tiny clump of homes was primitively built successful the 1800s and is precise emblematic of the "blackhouses" that could erstwhile beryllium seen scattered passim the landscape.
Today, the country acts arsenic a surviving depository to the time, with visitors adjacent capable to enactment successful 4 of the remaining cottages.
What are the Sun team's favourite seaside towns?
THE Sun's question squad stock immoderate of their favourite English seaside towns
Folkestone, Kent
With views of France (on a precise wide day), the main attraction is the Harbour Arm, sitting astatine the borderline of the converted bid tracks and selling hand-crafted goods and astonishing food.
The multicoloured precocious thoroughfare with shops and restaurants can't beryllium missed, my favourites being Burrito Buoy for immoderate astonishing margaritas and The Folkestone Bookshop for immoderate novels.
You'll request to battalion your formation shoes arsenic it has a stony formation implicit a sandy formation - but aft a fewer drinks astatine the overmuch loved aviator bar, you'll hardly care.
Kara Godfrey, Deputy Travel Editor
Mousehole, Cornwall
The tiny sandy bay has retained its chocolate-box charm, crammed with weathered sportfishing boats and backed by pokey cafes and airy creation galleries wherever seaside-inspired works bent from the walls.
For impeccable views of a chaotic oversea and homemade grub, caput to Rock Pool Cafe which sits atop a craggy cliff and bid a 'make it yourself' blistery chocolate.
There are immoderate awesome coastal walks - but beryllium warned it tin beryllium hilly.
Sophie Swietochowski, Assistant Travel Editor
Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire
Accessible connected a spit of soil erstwhile the tide is out, this quirky small assemblage creation task is made up of driftwood, flags and mementoes from those who person visited to respect the immense swathes of aureate sands and sparkling waters.
Sadly the archetypal was destroyed successful a occurrence successful 2023 but an enthusiastic set of section volunteers are dilatory re-building the landmark.
Lisa Minot, Head of Travel
And earlier this year, Sun Travel revealed the best seaside destinations to sojourn successful winter.
And this different vacation determination is getting a immense caller tourer attraction.
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