Beesands Devon CAM

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Beesands Place: Beesands Category: Places Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 About: Small fishing boat at Beesands. Photograph Added: 28th February 2006

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Fishing Boat Place: Beesands Category: Places Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 Prints of this photograph are available to order world wide. Click here to order online now. About: Small fishing boat at Beesands Photograph Added: 22nd February 2006

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Cricket Inn Place: Beesands Category: Pubs and Nightspots Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 About: The Cricket Inn at Beesands. Photograph Added: 18th February 2006

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Start Point From Beesands Place: Beesands Category: Beaches Please select a size: 800x600 - 1024x768 Prints of this photograph are available to order world wide. Click here to order online now. About: Start Point with its light house just visible from the shingle beach at Beesands. Photograph Added: 14th February 2006

About Beesands Devon.

Beesands is located seven and half miles south west of Dartmouth on the A379. it is part of Start Bay which is a beautiful bay between the River Dart's estuary and Start Point.
Today this small village is only a single row of cottages l behind a mile long shingle beach but it has a village green a pub and a shop. Tourism is the main industry but once Beesands was a busy fishing village. Records show that boats laden with fish and shellfish were drawn up the beach almost to the cottages. At the end of the century there were dozens of boats operating off Beesands beach and six to eight tons of crabs went to Billingsgate market each week during the summer.
Beesands has fortunately escaped the devastating fate that befell its very near neighbour Hallsands. This village was almost completely destroyed by a violent storm in 1917. Controversy about the fate of Hallsands still rages but many believe that the village was lost as a direct consequence of the dredging operation for the extensions to Plymouth harbour. 650,000 tons of shingle was allegedly taken from the beach.
Beesands is a charming quiet place and well worth a visit.