Beach rides in North Wales

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I live in Shropshire very close to the Welsh border (next to Oswestry and Wrexham) - can anyone suggest beach rides in the North Wales area I could box to? Also, are there any restrictions I should know about (i.e. any time of the year the beach is closed to horses, problems with tides, car parking space for the horsebox)?

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Although its quite far from you, Newborough beach on Anglesey is gorgeous. I've known a lot of people to ride through the forest first and then onto the beach. They are two different parking areas, one for going stright on the beach and the other is further away by the forest part. I haven't actually ridden on this Newborough beach, but I have on one just round the corner which my RS uses- they are both beautiful.
It gets very busy in summer time however and to go to the parking area near the beach you have to pay a £1ish fee first.
Whenever I've been there the tide is nearly always way out.

Hope this helps!
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Hello! I live in Shropshire too. There's Talacre beach, near Holywell and Prestatyn. Probably be just over an hour drive from you, maybe longer going at trailer speed. It's not far and a lovely beach. I've never ridden there but often take my dogs up to walk and see alot of horses and their boxes parked on the car park (which is quite bumpy but not too bad). There's a bridle path through the sand dunes and you have to stay on one side of the light house. The rest of the beach I think is then closed off to horses.

There's a hacking centre just up the road called Bridlewood, so you could always call them to find out where you can go etc. I've always wanted to take my loan mare there but I can imagine we would lack brakes lol. Maybe one day!
 
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Although its quite far from you, Newborough beach on Anglesey is gorgeous. I've known a lot of people to ride through the forest first and then onto the beach. They are two different parking areas, one for going stright on the beach and the other is further away by the forest part. I haven't actually ridden on this Newborough beach, but I have on one just round the corner which my RS uses- they are both beautiful.
It gets very busy in summer time however and to go to the parking area near the beach you have to pay a £1ish fee first.
Whenever I've been there the tide is nearly always way out.

Hope this helps!
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This beach is lovely about 1/2 an hour from me, you need to get a pass to ride through the forest to get to the beach, but it's abou 2 hours ish from Shropshire
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The only other one that i would suggest is in Conwy
 
conwy is lovely if you can find parking. Most times parking is a nightmare there. ALso got to be very very careful about the tides as they come in soooo fast.
 
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