Borth Beach

Borth is a long, honest west-facing beach on the Ceredigion coast with two aerial subjects you will not find together anywhere else in Wales. At low spring tides the remains of a submerged prehistoric forest emerge from the sand — blackened 4,500-year-old stumps scattered across the beach — and top-down frames of them against the ripples are genuinely unusual images. Look the other way and the village itself is a single line of houses pinched between beach and reedy bog, which makes a great high, straight-down composition. Beyond the northern end, the sands run toward the Dyfi estuary mouth with Aberdyfi twinkling across the water. TOAL from the beach is straightforward; there are car parks and roadside spots along the front, and outside summer weekends you will share the sand with a handful of dog walkers and surfers. The hard boundary is to the north: Ynyslas dunes and the Dyfi estuary form a National Nature Reserve managed by NRW, with internationally important bird populations — do not fly over the reserve or estuary flats, and treat the golf course boundary as your turnaround point. It is an exposed coast, so the usual small-drone wind caveats apply, and salt haze can soften long shots in onshore breezes. Sunset lands straight out to sea all year.