Saunton Sands, Devon - Hotel - real photo postcard by Sweetman c.1930s

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  • Picture / Image:  Saunton Sands Hotel, Devon
  • Publisher: EA Sweetman & Son - real photo
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Saunton Sands is a beach in the English village of Saunton on the North Devon coast near Braunton, popular as a longboardsurfing location.^[1] Its southern end, Crow Point, lies at the mouth of the River Taw estuary.^[2] It is part of the Taw-Torridge estuary Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is at the centre of the UNESCO-designated North Devon's Biosphere Reserve, where Braunton Burrows lies at the heart.

Saunton Sands Hotel overlooks the beach at the northern end. This is cordoned off a few times a year and the beach used as an air strip for military transport planes, usually Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the Royal Air Force, to practice STOL beach landings and take offs.^[3] There are permanent restrictions in some areas for flying kites on this part of the beach.^[4]

Saunton Sands is popular with surfers because the beach is long and provides space for large groups.

On 3 August 1990, a temperature of 35.4 °C (95.7 °F) was recorded at Saunton Sands, which is the highest temperature recorded in the England's south-west.^[5]

Saunton Sands was used as a location for the 1946 Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death (sometimes called Stairway to Heaven)^[6], and can be seen where David Niven's character is washed up on the beach after he jumps from his plane without a parachute – and survives.

It was a major location for the 1978 horror film The Shout, along with the adjacent Braunton Burrows.^[7]

The beach was used as a location for the Second World War Anzio landings scenes in the 1982 Pink Floyd film The Wall^[8] and as the backdrop for over 700 wrought iron hospital beds on the cover of the band's 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason.^[9] Saunton Sands also doubled for the Normandy beaches in 2014's movie Edge of Tomorrow.^[10]

In the late 1990s the beach was used for the video for the Robbie Williams song "Angels".^[11] In 2013 it was used again for the video for the Olly Murs song "Hand on Heart".^[12]