Amble

What can I do?

• View live images of nesting seabirds (including puffins and four species of terns), transmitted from the RSPB’s Coquet Island reserve, at the Amble Tourist Information Centre.
• Take a boat trip around the Coquet Island bird reserve and see the 80ft high lighthouse. Its first keeper was Grace Darling’s elder brother.
• Picnic on the open grassland of Amble Braid and watch wading birds and waterfowl in the Coquet Estuary.
• Explore the marina, once a busy coal-mining port and still an important fishing centre.
• Visit Amble Lifeboat Station, part of the local community since 1842.
• Walk or cycle along the River Coquet to Warkworth.
• Explore Amble Dunes nature reserve to the south of town.
• Surf on Amble Beach or learn a range of watersports at the Coquet Shorebase Trust.

What do I need to know?

• Coquet Island holds 90% of the UK’s roseate tern population (the UK’s rarest seabird).
• No boat landing is possible on Coquet Island but Omega Charters and Dave Gray Boat Trips in Amble organise boat trips around the reserve in the summer months.
• The Amble Tourist Information Centre is open from Easter to the end of Summer.
• The Amble Lifeboat Station is usually open during summer but groups and school parties must book in advance.
• Druridge Bay, one of the most impressive stretches of beach backed by sand dunes on Britain’s east coast, is three miles south of Amble.

Where can I find out more?

• Coquet Island RSPB reserve
• Coquet Island Lighthouse
• Amble Lifeboat Station
• Coquet Shorebase Trust
• Surfing information
• Visit the Northumberland Communities website for information about the history of Amble.

  Inspire me

  Try our specially designed family activities. Puffins, Food Webs and Dangerous Seas are all great ways of getting to know Amble. You can download pdf versions of these activities using the links to the right, or visit the Inspire me page to find a these and other activities in both pdf and Microsoft Word versions (for you to customise if you wish).