List of piers in the United Kingdom

Brighton Pier at dusk

The Lists of piers in United Kingdom is describing piers at the coast and on the river Thames.

Coastal Piers

Source:[1]

England

Name Place Description Image
Central Pier Blackpool
South Pier Blackpool
North Pier Blackpool
Bognor Regis Pier Bognor Regis
Bournemouth Pier Bournemouth
Boscombe Pier Bournemouth
Palace Pier Brighton
Burnham-on-Sea Pier Burnham-on-Sea Claims to be Britain's shortest pier
Clacton Pier Clacton-on-Sea
Cleethorpes Pier Cleethorpes
Clevedon Pier Clevedon
Cromer Pier Cromer
Deal Pier Deal
Eastbourne Pier Eastbourne
Prince of Wales Pier Falmouth
Felixstowe Pier Felixstowe
Fleetwood Pier Fleetwood Destroyed by fire in 2008.
Harbour Arm Folkestone
Gravesend Town Gravesend
Britannia Pier Great Yarmouth
Wellington Pier Great Yarmouth
Ha'penny Pier Harwich
Hastings Pier Hastings
Herne Bay Pier Herne Bay
Hythe Pier Hythe
Claremont Pier Lowestoft
South Pier Lowestoft
St Annes Pier Lytham St Annes
Morecambe Central Pier[2] Morecambe
Morecambe West Pier[3] Morecambe
Paignton Pier Paignton
Ryde Pier Ryde
Saltburn Pier Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Culver Pier Sandown
Skegness Pier Skegness
Royal Pier Southampton
Southend Pier Southend-on-Sea The longest pleasure pier in the world extending 2.1 km (1.3 miles) into the

Thames Estuary.
Southport Pier Southport
South Parade Pier Southsea
Clarence Pier Southsea
Southwold Pier Southwold
Swanage Pier Swanage
Grand Pier Teignmouth
Princess Pier Torquay
Totland Pier Totland Bay
Walton-on-the-Naze Pier Walton-on-the-Naze
Grand Pier Weston-super-Mare
Birnbeck Pier Weston-super-Mare
Commercial/Pleasure Pier Weymouth
Weymouth Pier Bandstand Weymouth
Worthing Pier Worthing
Yarmouth Pier Yarmouth

Scotland

Name Place Description Image
Dunoon Pier Dunoon
Kilcreggan Pier Kilcreggan Ferry to Helensburgh.[4]
Rothesay Pier Rothesay

Wales

Name Place Description Image
Royal Pier Aberystwyth
Garth Pier Bangor 460 m length, opened in 1896. Reopened in 1988.
Beaumaris Pier Beaumaris
Victoria Pier Colwyn Bay
Llandudno Pier Llandudno
Mumbles Pier Mumbles
Penarth Pier Penarth
Rhyl Pier Rhyl Removed in 1972.

Isle Of Man

Name Place Description Image
Queen's Pier Ramsey Build in 1886. Closed 1985. Former Queen's Pier Tramway in museums now.

Piers in London

See also

References

  1. ↑ "(Surviving Piers)". National Piers Society. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  2. ↑ http://www.piers.org.uk/pierpages/NPSmorecambecent.html
  3. ↑ http://www.piers.org.uk/pierpages/NPSmorecambewest.html
  4. ↑ http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kilcreggan/kilcreggan/index.html
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