Only ten miles from Newcastle, Whitley Bay is an old-school seaside resort that came to the fore in the 19th century.
You have a long and broad sandy beach to wander past, backed by a promenade with lovely vistas up to St Mary’s Lighthouse to the north.
At the upper end is an excellent links golf course, and if you keep going along the seafront you’ll come to the lighthouse, which is linked to the mainland via a concrete causeway you can cross at low tide.
