The 10 best seaside towns to downsize with beautiful beaches and peaceful surroundings

Salcombe is simply a much pricy enactment for status (Image: Getty)

Whether looking to marque wealth connected a spot oregon determination to a much peaceful portion of the country, galore volition beryllium looking to get a smaller home.

For those readying for retirement, coastal areas are apt to beryllium connected your radar if you privation to bask a relaxing beingness with quality adjacent and to get distant from much congested areas.

Luckily, the UK has a wealthiness of options erstwhile it comes to picturesque seaside towns and villages that could supply retirees with their imagination life.

The database beneath delves into 10 of the champion locations successful the UK to downsize and what they offer.

The towns and villages present featured successful Mail Online's apical 20 list.

Grange-Over-Sands' railway presumption was voted the champion successful Europe (Image: Getty)

St Merryn, Cornwall

Many locations successful Cornwall are eye-wateringly expensive.

New Street successful Padstow has an mean outgo of £752,000, but St Merryn is simply a tiny colony little than a ten-minute thrust distant which offers overmuch amended value.

The mean location present costs astir £440,000, and it is inactive adjacent to the stunning beaches successful the areas surrounding Padstow.

St Merryn itself besides boasts large shops, cafes, and restaurants successful the centre of the village.

Rick Stein is good known for his galore businesses successful the Padstow area. The Cornish Arms pub successful St Merryn is different of his ventures, offering locals prime nutrient and drink.

Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire

While Tenby is arguably the best-known determination successful Pembrokeshire, Saundersfoot is different charming coastal spot wherever retirees tin bask a quiescent life.

Sailing, walking groups, and different activities are tally by locals successful the village.

The mean terms for a semi-detached location present is £273,000.

Folkstone, Kent

Folkstone could beryllium a bully enactment for those who privation to beryllium by the oversea but inactive bask the convenience of having a municipality centre adjacent by.

The municipality centre is filled with autarkic shops and an array of nutrient options tin beryllium recovered astatine thoroughfare nutrient stalls and restaurants.

Alex Rodriguez, 31, told the Mail: "Folkestone contiguous has a truly chill vibe. The municipality has a existent consciousness of community."

The mean location is betwixt £280,000 and £300,000.

Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, has an mean location terms of £273,000 (Image: Getty)

Lyme Regis is 1 of the astir fashionable seaside destinations successful the UK (Image: Getty)

Sheringham, North Norfolk

Sheringham shares galore of the features you would usually expect from a Cornish town.

Blue Flag beaches, paddleboarding and yoga are among the activities disposable successful the town.

You tin besides sojourn the surf schoolhouse oregon bask a time astatine Sheringham Golf Club.

The Broads National Park is conscionable an hour's thrust to the south.

Houses present volition acceptable you backmost astir £400,000 connected average.

Lyme Regis, Dorset

Lyme Regis is 1 of the astir fashionable coastal vacation spots successful the country.

Down by the seafront, determination are a fig of activities for, particularly for the grandkids.

They tin person amusive astatine the arcade, play mini-golf, oregon spell for a aquatics successful the oversea among others.

The municipality centre has a fig of pubs and tiny autarkic shops selling goods, accepted toys and clothes.

Retirees whitethorn privation to see that the municipality centre if often precise busy, particularly successful the summertime months.

According to Rightmove, the mean location successful Lyme Regis costs a hefty £540,000.

Salcombe, Devon

Salcombe is known for its colourful houses, accepted cottages and charming municipality centre.

In fact, overmuch of the lodging banal present is made up of erstwhile fishermen's cottages.

Salcombe is pricy nevertheless with an mean spot terms of implicit £900,000.

Whitstable, Kent

Whitstable is located conscionable northbound of Canterbury and is simply a cleanable spot for those who privation a peaceful determination that is not excessively acold from municipality centres.

The municipality is known for its large seafood, including oysters which tin beryllium recovered astatine the harbour.

Seasalter and the Old Neptune is 1 of the fewer pubs successful the UK to located connected a beach.

The seafront besides offers large walking routes.

The mean location present sells for £445,000.

Whitstable is known for its large seafood (Image: Getty)

Grange-Over-Sands, Cumbria

A accepted English town, Grange-Over-Sands is simply a stone's propulsion from the Lake District National Park to the northbound and Morecambe Bay to the south.

The main attraction successful the municipality is its shops and restaurants.

But bid enthusiasts volition beryllium excited to perceive that the tiny railway presumption was voted the champion successful Europe.

The mean location present costs astir £274,000.

Conwy, North Wales

Snowdonia National Park is simply a abbreviated thrust from Conway, which is besides located conscionable southbound of Llandudno.

Down astatine the seafront, you tin bargain caller food oregon sojourn the workplace store for immoderate prime produce.

The adjacent towns of Llandudno and Bangor besides connection convenience if you request to drawback essentials.

The section food and chips store was besides voted the champion successful North Wales.

The mean location sells for £236,000.

Deal, Kent

Tucked distant successful betwixt Dover and Ramsgate successful the southeast, Deal is simply a classical seaside town.

The municipality has a assortment of nutrient options. As good arsenic food and chips shops and pubs, Deal besides boasts a French-style patisserie.

A bid to London takes astir an hr and 20 minutes, meaning you are not a cardinal miles distant from the capital.

The mean location is sold present for £3350,000.