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Housel Bay

A beach in Cornwall, in the Cornwall National Landscape. Nothing is mapped by the sand: bring what you need.

Housel Bay
Photo Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0

On the beach

No. 113 of 1,883 as a wild beach, No. 1,209 for an easy beach day.

Within 300 m
Nothing mapped: bring what you needOpenStreetMap, checked 2026-10-29; stops from NaPTAN and Translink
Landscape
Cornwall National LandscapeNatural England, National Parks (England), checked 2026-11-01
Size
About 4800 m² as mappedOpenStreetMap, checked 2026-10-29
Surface
SandOpenStreetMap, checked 2026-10-29
Position
49.9637° N, 5.1970° W
Getting there
Directions in Google Mapswhat3words addressOpen in OpenStreetMap

Nearest beaches

All beaches in Cornwall
All beaches in the UK

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