Littlestone Beach

New Romney · South Kent · sand

East-facing sandy beach at Littlestone, next to the golf links. Parking on site, a historic cannon on the green, and the Pegasus restaurant nearby.

What the tide does here

At a spring high tide only about 13% of Littlestone Beach is out of the water. By spring low the sea has drawn back roughly 900 metres, uncovering all of it — about 176 hectares of sand.

Littlestone Beach at high water: the dry beach shaded on a satellite map — **High water, 6.9 m above chart datum.** About 16% of Littlestone Beach is out of the water.

Littlestone Beach at low water: the dry beach shaded on a satellite map — **Low water, 1.7 m above chart datum.** About 89% is uncovered.

Dogs

From 1 May to 30 September dogs are banned from the beach between Madeira Road and Clark Road. Dogs must be on a lead on Littlestone Green, Grand Parade and Marine Parade all year.

Water quality

Classified Poor by the Environment Agency in 2025, sampled as "Littlestone", a designated bathing water since 1988. Daily pollution risk forecasts appear on this page in the bathing season.

Lifeguards

No RNLI lifeguard patrol here.

Facilities

No facilities recorded at this beach.

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Tide predictions © UK Hydrographic Office. Beach shape from Environment Agency LIDAR survey data, © Environment Agency, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Facilities and places from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Bathing water classifications from the Environment Agency. Satellite imagery © Mapbox, © Maxar.