The famous Chariots of Fire beach: two miles of flat firm sand backed by the university towers and links courses, with Excellent-rated water. It shelves so gradually that a swim means a proper walk out first, and a beach wheelchair scheme runs seasonally.
Iconic Chariots of Fire beach, Blue Flag, robust and famous; exact coords fine.
West Sands car park off Golf Place / links road.
Direct dune-backed beach access, long flat sand.
St Andrews
A sheltered harbour-side beach beside St Andrews' leisure centre, gentler and less exposed than West Sands and with proper chan…
Tayport, North Fife
Forest tracks giving way to a wide dune beach with a genuinely dark sea horizon to the east, away from the Dundee glow inland. …
Tentsmuir NNR, near Tayport
Forest tracks out to a shifting dune and sand-point reserve with a seal colony, especially active in autumn and winter pupping …