{"id":77348,"date":"2026-07-06T06:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/77348\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T06:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:32:45","slug":"findhorn-ranked-one-of-the-best-beaches-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/77348\/","title":{"rendered":"Findhorn ranked one of the best beaches in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Moray village boasts one of the best beaches in the UK, according to a new ranking.<\/p>\n

Findhorn has been included in a list of the top 50 best UK beaches created by the Times and The Sunday Times.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Findhorn\"FindhornFindhorn Beach was featured in a new top-50 ranking\u2026Picture: Beth Taylor\"Findhorn\"FindhornFindhorn was featured among the best beaches in the UK.<\/p>\n

The Moray beauty spot was selected as part of a five-week long, 4307-mile survey of 607 longlisted beaches, though both Cullen and Spey Bay were absent<\/a> despite having featured in last year\u2019s list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, while Findhorn made an appearance on the top-50 list, it was not ranked Scotland\u2019s beach of the year.<\/p>\n

This accolade went to Horgabost, on Harris, which Times chief travel writer Chris Haslam described as \u201ca near mythic incarnation of isolated beauty\u201d.<\/p>\n

Its win came in the first year that the guide was expanded to include beaches beyond the UK mainland.<\/p>\n

Every beach featured in the top-50 ranking must have been personally inspected within the last eight weeks, with sites earning points for cleanliness, accessibility, parking, lifeguard provision, toilet and shower condition, dog-friendliness and water quality.<\/p>\n

\"Beaches\"BeachesBeaches were also ranked according to their accessibility\u2026Picture: Daniel Forsyth.<\/p>\n

This year, beaches were also judged on community engagement, and the \u201cpassion and commitment of local people\u201d.<\/p>\n

Do you want to respond to this article? If so, click here<\/a> to submit your thoughts and they may be published in print. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Moray village boasts one of the best beaches in the UK, according to a new ranking. Findhorn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[8363,346,5,6,5860],"class_list":["post-77348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-community","tag-latest-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-update-me"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116871636244171741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}