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Originally Posted by zebulon2002
I'm not a legal expert, but I think I'm right in saying in the UK there is no such thing as a private beach and closing a beach for a purpose must be very hard. Any person there is in a public place.
Great pics, will be thaking all. I'd love to have spotted the Rev in open water, who was very unfairly body-shamed by trolls. Ridiculous!
Also, God forgive me!
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IANAL
In the UK, the foreshore (the land between mean high and mean low water mark) plus the seabed up to 12 nautical miles is owned by the Crown Estate, the Duchy of Cornwall or the Duchy of Lancashire. In general, the public would seem to have a right to walk on the strip between high and low water.
But the beach above the high water mark is owned by various bodies (eg local authority, National Trust, Ministry of Defence) and private individuals who could permanently or temporarily restrict access to the beach, even if there was an established public right of way eg across fields to the beach. eg parts of the very wide Holkham beach in Norfolk are privately owned.
So although you could legally walk along the foreshore to a particular beach, cliffs and rocks might make this near-impossible.
I don't know who owns the beach above high water where the NESD occurs, I suppose they might temporarily restrict access during the NESD.