South Shore Holiday Village,
Wilsthorpe, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO15 3QN
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HOW TO FIND US
South Shore Holiday Village is 1 mile south of Bridlington,
off Kingsgate (the A165 Hull road).
200 metres past the south end of Bridlington Golf Course
turn left and follow the brown signs for South Cliff Caravan Park.
Go past Makis to the bottom of the road
and turn second right at the mini roundabout.
Pass though the white wall gates to South Shore Holiday Village.
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SOUTH SHORE HOLIDAY VILLAGE
(member of the British Holiday and Home Parks Association)
If you're looking for a comfortable holiday chalet close to the beach on the Yorkshire coast, look no further than South Shore Holiday Village!
We really love the relaxed way of life and the sense of community here.
Set within 18 acres, just south of Bridlington town centre, we're in the perfect location for a family holiday home at the seaside.
The village overlooks miles of golden sand, and we're alongside one of England’s best-rated beaches with beach front amenities at hand.
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| Beach entrance | South Shore beach | View toward Bridlington |
Away from the beach we're surrounded by picturesque countryside, a golf course is located on our doorstep, and many other attractions and places for the family to visit are close by.
Bridlington has everything families and couples would need to enjoy a traditional seaside holiday, with all the fun of the seafront fairground, excellent dining, pubs and clubs, and a lively night life.
For walks in the Bridlington area please visit
http://walkingtheriding.eastriding.gov.uk/find-walks/bridlington-area/
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| View toward north-west | View toward south-east |
Bridlington Golf Club
Belvedere Road, Bridlington, YO15 3NA
Tel
http://bridlingtongolfclub.co.uk/
e-mail enquiries@bridlingtongolfclub.co.uk
For more golf clubs around Bridlington please visit
http://www.golftoday.co.uk/clubhouse/coursedir/yorks3.htm
HOLIDAY VILLAGE AMENITIES
General Store, Newsagent, Off Licence
The convenience store sells daily newspapers, everyday essentials such as bread, milk and groceries, and everything for the beach.
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Italian Restaurant
Dolce Vita has a growing reputation for serving excellent Italian cuisine.
Look out for the early diner's offers. The Sunday carvery is the best.
There is also a Polish menu should you wish to try something different.
Children are welcomed and looked after. Booking is recommended.
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| Italian restaurant | Italian restaurant | Italian restaurant |
Beachside Café
Providing traditional English breakfasts, teas, coffee and sandwiches:
a lovely way to start the day - breakfast overlooking the sea.
The café also has a daily menu of hot and cold freshly-made food.
Picnics for a day on the beach may be ordered from the café too.
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| Beach café |
Fish and Chip Bar
J's is open all year round, serving a selection of freshly-caught fish.
The best fish and chips we have ever tasted, cooked fresh to order, and with a lovely friendly service.
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| Fish and chip bar |
Pub
Shirley’s fully-licensed and fully-stocked bar includes numerous draft and bottled beers, with daytime bar snacks and Sunday dinners.
The bar hosts evening entertainments. Children are welcome to 9pm.
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| Shirley's bar | Shirley's bar | Shirley's bar |
Amusement Arcade
The amusement arcade provides bingo sessions, the latest in fruit machines, children-friendly games machines, pool tables, air hockey.
Nightly entertainment in the arcade's family room has typically included:
magicians, hypnotists, games, discos, singers.
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| Amusement arcade |
Children's Play Area
This facility gives children plenty to smile about all day long, with lots of room to run around in a safe area enclosed with a fence.
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| Children's play area | Children's play area |
Tennis Court
Available by the hour, with racquets and balls for hire.
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| Tennis court |
Makis Leisure
South Cliff Caravan Park, Wilsthorpe, Bridlington, YO15 3QN
Makis is a few minutes' walk from South Shore Holiday Village.
Food is served here all day, there's a park and shop, a launderette, nightly entertainment - brilliant for children and adults alike.
JOURNEYING TO AND FROM BRIDLINGTON
A useful link to and from Bridlington town centre is the Park and Ride service (available to anyone who has paid to use South Cliff car park),
going by a Spa explorer shuttle bus or the Spa light express land train.
The service operates daily between 9am and 6pm.
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http://www.aboutbridlington.co.uk/transport/parknride.html
e-mail parkandride@eastriding.gov.uk
Buses also depart from neighbouring Makis in all directions.
Alternatively, it's a 20-minute stroll along the seafront into Bridlington.
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| Seafront walk to Bridlington | Seafront walk to Bridlington |
LOCAL ATTRACTIONS AND PLACES TO VISIT
Bridlington Tourist Information
Tel
e-mail bridlington.tic@eastriding.gov.uk
For an introduction to Bridlington please visit
http://www.aboutbridlington.co.uk/
http://www.bridlington.co.uk/
http://www.bridlington.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridlington
http://www.bridlington.gov.uk/
Bridlington Beaches
Bridlington has some of England's finest beaches, including our own South Shore beach, proudly flying the Resort Seaside Award flag (this means South Shore beach has passed stringent tests for water quality, cleanliness, safety and the highest standards of beach management). This traditional beach even has donkeys for the little ones to ride!
The North beach is a clean sweep of quality sand, backed by low cliffs planted up by the Council to look fantastic. The cliffs gradually rise to a great height as they become part of Flamborough Head, and the beach becomes wild and rocky, with rock pools for children to poke about in.
For Bridlington tide times please visit
http://www.tidetimes.org.uk/bridlington-tide-times
For Bridlington weather forecast please visit
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/yh/bridlington_forecast_weather.html
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| Bridlington seafont (south view) | Bridlington seafont (north view) |
Bridlington Harbour
Bridlington's historic harbour is the centrepiece of the bustling seafront. Still a busy fishing port, Bridlington's fishermen bring in their daily catch to sell fresh. The moorings are shared with private yachts, pleasure cruisers and sailing boats, all of which add to the charm of the harbour.
There's plenty of fun to be had in Bridlington Bay too. Set sail on a pirate ship, or fasten your seatbelts for thrilling speedboat rides across the bay. Try sea fishing at the harbour, join a real North Sea fishing expedition, or take a cruise along the Yorkshire Heritage Coast.
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| Bridlington harbour | Harbour and North beach |
For Bridlington harbour please visit
http://www.bridlingtonharbour.com/
For Bridlington Pirate Ship please visit
http://www.pirateshipbridlington.co.uk/
For Yorkshire Heritage Coast please visit
http://www.britainexpress.com/countryside/coast/north-yorkshire.htm
Historic Bridlington
Bridlington's Old Town comprises the 17th century high street, antique shops, craft shops and charming cafés. St. Mary's Priory Church is nearly 1,000 years old and is part of what was once one of the largest and most important monasteries in Northern England. You can visit the Priory Gatehouse, formerly a prison and now the Bayle Museum. In the market place you can still see the original stocks!
For Bridlington history please visit
http://www2.bridlingtontoday.co.uk/history/
For Bridlington Priory Church please visit
http://www.bridlingtonpriory.co.uk/
For the Bayle Museum please visit
http://www.bayle.bridlington.net/
Family activities in Bridlington
Bridlington Seafront Road Train
The seafront road train takes visitors to all the traditional attractions in Bridlington. This is a fun way to see what Bridlington has to offer, and great for the children when you fancy a rest.
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| Seafront road train |
Bridlington Leisure World
The Promenade, Bridlington, YO15 2QQ
Avoiding the traffic in the centre of Bridlington, the Leisure World has an excellent pool with wave machine and slides.
Tel
http://www.bridlingtonleisureworld.co.uk/
Forum Cinema, The Esplanade, Bridlington, Y015 2PB
Tel
http://www.forumcinema.co.uk/
Bridlington Spa Theatre and Royal Hall
South Marine Drive, Bridlington, YO15 3JH
If you love to dress up and catch a show, the Edwardian theatre offers music, dance, drama and comedy productions.
Visit the Spa café bar with stunning views over Bridlington bay,
and also enjoy free tours of this unique and sensational building.
Tel
http://www.thespabridlington.com/
e-mail spasales@eastriding.gov.uk
John Bull World of Rock
Lancaster Road, Carnaby Industrial Estate, Bridlington, YO15 3QY
This working factory provides demonstrations of the manufacture of rock, sweets, biscuits and chocolates. Visitors get the chance to make their own chocolate lollies or to personalise their own sticks of rock.
Tel
http://www.john-bull.com/
e-mail info@john-bull.com
Bondville Miniature Village
Main Street, Sewerby, Bridlington, YO16 1ER
This is a fascinating and beautiful village scene in miniature, including a harbour with sailing boats and a train that chugs along. Set over a one-acre site there are over 200 buildings and 1,000 figures.
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Park Rose Pottery and Leisure Farm
Carnaby Covert Lane, Carnaby, Lincolnshire, YO15 3QF
This working pottery, set in 12 acres of gardens and parkland with its own owl sanctuary and woodland conservation area, is an educational delight for both children and adults. Here you can see birds of prey, a hatchery and an owl breeding programme. A huge kiddies adventure playground is fully supervised; ideal should mum and dad need a little peace for a few hours (!), perhaps to browse the onsite gift shop or to relax in the licensed café.
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Sewerby Hall
Church Lane, Sewerby, Bridlington, YO15 1EA
The grade I listed country house is set in 50 acres of landscaped gardens in a cliff top location on the outskirts of Sewerby village.
The park and gardens include:
Sewerby zoo, the woodland walk, Sewerby landtrain, picnic areas, children's facilities, golf, putting, cricket, bowls, outside entertainment.
Tel
http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/sewerby/
e-mail sewerby.hall@eastriding.gov.uk
Markets and car boot sales
Thursdays offer a huge car boot sale and market at Strawberry Fields,
back out on the main A165 road toward Bridlington. Further afield at Skirlington there is an even bigger Sunday market and car boot sale.
Flamborough Head
Flamborough Head is one of Britain's most spectacular areas of chalk cliffs, standing 400 feet high, with coves, caves and sea stacks. As a Special Area of Conservation (SAC), there are 189 habitat types and 788 species, and the cliff top walk is a birdspotter's paradise.
There are two lightouses at Flamborough: a white octagonal tower dating from 1674 (possibly the oldest surviving lighthouse in England?) and a second lighthouse built in 1806. Trinity House operates tours of the lighthouse seasonally. There are toilets and a café here, making it a nice stopping point if you're walking round the headland.
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| Flamborough Head | Puffins at Bempton Cliffs |
Bempton Cliffs
A family favourite, and easily the best place in England for seabirds. More than 200,000 birds (April to August) make the cliffs seem alive, and beginners can easily learn the difference between guillemots, gannets, razorbills, kittiwakes and fulmars, and the puffins (April to July) are always a delight for everybody.
The RSPB visitor centre opens from March to October, 9.30am to 5pm. The centre runs a programme of family events throughout the year, and Backpack Activity days are very popular. Even though it's a cliff-top location, good fencing makes the site safe for supervised children.
Dogs are welcome here, but they must be kept on a lead at all times.
For Bempton Cliffs RSPB please visit
http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/b/bemptoncliffs/index.aspx
Excursions further afield
Visitors to Bridlington may like to take day trips to explore the region, perhaps along the coast to Scarborough, Whitby, Filey, Hornsea, Robin Hood's Bay or Cayton Bay, inland to the ancient city of York or up into the North York Moors National Park. This is a beautiful part of the world for you to enjoy from your South Shore base.
After a day out, it's nice to get back to the chalet and South Shore, where the beach is the best, with sand dunes for the kids to explore and the remains of WW2 bunkers to investigate!
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| South Shore sand dunes | South Shore sand dunes |
Most people never discover how it feels to be on a beach in winter: being at the seaside out of season somehow takes one back to nature.
Dogs are allowed on this part of the beach all year round.
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| Dog-friendly beach | Dog-friendly beach |
Have a great holiday and give me a ring if you find any problems,
or even if you've had a really lovely time at Bridlington South Shore!
Best wishes,
Nicola
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nthornes37@tiscali.co.uk