We are a runner up in the 2011 Coast Awards
Yippee! The Rosevine are runners up in the 'Best Boutique Hotel by the Sea' category in this year's Coast Awards.
And we were delighted to see lots of our favourite Cornish places succeed in the awards too. The National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, the South West Coast Path which runs past our door, and Tate St Ives all did well ...
The annual Coast Awards celebrate the people and places that represent all that is innovative, valuable and exciting around the British coastline. This year’s ten categories include Best Boutique Hotel by the Sea, Best-Loved Pier, Best Green Marine Campaign, Unsung Coastal Hero and the Joules Award for Best Coastal Path.
Coast magazine was inundated with thousands of votes from across the UK and, searching for the very best Britain’s coast has to offer, a panel of seven experts joined Coast Editor Clare Gogerty to sift through scores of nominees and decide eight of the ten category winners and runners-up.
TV presenter Michaela Strachan awarded the winners and runners-up their prizes at the Coast Awards 2011 ceremony, which was held this week at the Country Living Fair in London.
Coast Editor Clare Gogerty says, “We are delighted to join with Joules once again in celebrating an especially strong line-up of seaside talent. The quality of this year’s nominations is proof that the visitor experience and lifestyle to be had by the British coast just keeps on getting better. Congratulations to Holkham for being voted ‘Best British Beach’ for a third time by Coast readers.”
The winners of the Coast Awards 2011, in association with Joules, are:
Best British Beach – Coast readers’ vote
WINNER: Holkham in Norfolk
RUNNERS-UP: Studland in Dorset and Botany Bay in Kent
Best Seaside Holiday Destination – Coast readers’ vote
WINNER: St Ives, Cornwall
RUNNERS-UP: Bournemouth in Dorset and Brighton in East Sussex
Best Boutique Hotel by the Sea
WINNER: The Scarlet in Mawgan Porth, Cornwall
RUNNERS-UP: The Reading Rooms in Margate, Kent
The Rosevine, near Portscatho in Cornwall
Best-Loved Pier
WINNER: Cromer Pier in Cromer, Norfolk
RUNNERS-UP: Brighton Pier in Brighton, East Sussex
Southwold Pier in Southwold, Suffolk
Best Coastal Pub/Café
WINNER: East Beach Café in Littlehampton, West Sussex
RUNNERS-UP: Hive Beach Café in Burton Bradstock, Dorset
The Lord Nelson in Southwold, Suffolk
Best Seaside Restaurant
WINNER: Fifteen Cornwall in Watergate Bay, Cornwall
RUNNERS-UP: Eddie Gilbert’s in Ramsgate, Kent
Urban Reef in Bournemouth, Dorset
Joules Award – Best Coastal Path
WINNER: Norfolk Coast Path
RUNNERS-UP: Pembrokeshire Coast Path National Trail
South West Coast Path
Best Green Marine Campaign
WINNER: Marine Conservation Society, Beachwatch
RUNNERS-UP: Surfers Against Sewage, Blue Flag Campaign
Thanet Coast Project
Best Seafront Cultural Attraction
WINNER: The De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
RUNNERS-UP: National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall
Tate St Ives in St Ives, Cornwall
Unsung Coastal Hero
WINNER: Dan Thompson, Revolutionary Arts Group in Worthing, West Sussex
RUNNERS-UP: Dani Church, Walberswick Ferry in Southwold, Suffolk Conrad Humphreys, Blue Mile Project in Plymouth, Devon
For full details of the Coast Awards 2011 check out the June issue of Coast, on sale 25 April
