292. Mossyard Beach

Mossyard Beach is ‘officially’ described as a small sandy bay about 100m wide, but when the tide is out on Mossyard Bay, as it is today, the ‘beach’ stretches for miles and is full of interesting features. As I head down to the Bay, signposted from the main road, I stop at the new small farm shop, aptly named Little Farm Shop. I tuck into a hot sausage roll and I’m impressed. Although there is a beach car park further on, I leave the car at the shop and walk down to the beach, tea in hand, which is beginning to fill with holidaymakers. However, with the tide out, I head beyond the small beach onto the vast expanse of rolling wet sand, past the small boats waiting to refloat and onto a small grassy island.  The views from here are superb and there’s even a wooden bench to take it all in. What’s more, I come across the rather lovely Mossyard Millennium Labyrinth, created by local children in 1999 and restored during the Covid pandemic by the landowners. A plaque describes how the small maze follows the classic design of similar structures around the world from as far back as 2500BC. I reflect on how many of the holidaymakers back at the beach even know this is here.