Bournemouth Beach Hut Association, Est 2009

Located on the south coast of England Southbourne was historically a popular seaside town, now part of the towns of Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole conurbation Southbourne Beach is renowned for its wide, exceptionally clean, sandy beach located to the east of Bournemouth it is popular with locals and is generally quieter than the main Bournemouth public beach. The facilities are excellent for families being patrolled by lifeguards during the summer season and part of the Kidzone scheme. There are various food outlets serving both eat-in and take-away food and if you have forgotten something then this beach shop stocks all those necessary beach accessories! Find Out more below.

Southbourne Superhuts

A short distance away from the natural beauty and headland at Hengistbury Head nature-reserve and best beach favourite of the locals all-year-round, family-friendly and Blue flag winning Southbourne Beach, or by its more formal coastal title, Southbourne-On-Sea Beach is usually one of the less crowded areas on the Dorset Coast, less hectic than the main beaches at Boscombe and Bournemouth.

In fact, Southbourne can be described as, a typical British seaside resort hinting at its Victorian seaside holidays past, family days-out with a promenade running down the beachfront, sandy beaches offering picturesque panoramic sea-views across Studland Bay of the shores of the beautiful Dorset county Jurassic coast starting point of Old Harry Rocks, taking in the National Trust owned Brownsea island. Come along to the beach and check out our view all along the seven miles all of the way down to Sandbanks.

The beach is located 4 miles east of Bournemouth and the town centre with the cliff height decreases as you move from Fisherman's Walk to Southbourne allowing easier access to visitors from the cliffs as well as being accessible from multiple Zig Zags. The nearest beach access being the Gordons Zigzag (The zig zag, opposite Stourwood Avenue between the Spyglass and Kettle and Commodore pubs), halfway between Southbourne Beach and Fisherman's Walk Beach (Fisherman’s Walk nature trail is a stunning walk along the cliff top situated between Fisherman's Avenue and Portman Crescent in Southbourne, linking to Southbourne Grove. It is a narrow strip of wooded land with a nature trail, woodland flowers and shrubs, and plenty of wildlife. Here you’ll find more refreshments and a lovely walk down the zig-zag to the beach). The council have spent lots of energy moving sand from the bay and back onto the beach topping up the golden sands and Southbourne has many opportunities for different watersports on the South Coast a long time favourite for kayaking, snorkelling surfers and swimmers.

The shoreline area is dog-friendly and dogs are allowed on certain parts of the beach throughout the year with an exercise area up to groyne 41 if coming along from the west from Fisherman’s Walk. The dog exercise area which is available walking East and away from Boscombe and Bournemouth just after the Fisherman's Walk Zig Zag, to just before the cafes of the Bistro on the Beach. However, if you want to have a bar-b-q on the beach then you will have to wait until the curfew is lifted at 6 pm.

Further away from Bournemouth Access is also possible by the gentle slope near to Southbourne's well-known Bistro on The Beach, and options are also available from Fisherman's Walk using the Fisherman's Walk Cliff railway. Parking is available at Warren Edge (BH6 4BE) with parking for 192 cars and Southbourne Cross Roads (BH6 3NH) which holds 78 Cars.

Bournemouth Borough Council (BBC) have completed works around this area in autumn, winter and spring which is part of their Beach Management Scheme. A number of groynes which interrupt wave action have been replaced moving East from Fisherman's Walk towards Southbourne and the sand on the beach has been replenished. Sand is dredged from a licensed area South-East of the Isle of Wight and then pumped through a long pipe onto the beach using water which then drains away, allowing bulldozers to move in and level the beach.