Coastal Trail

01/10/2026

Wild swimming is going monthly for autumn 🌊

From October, Guided Wild Swimming with Wild Swim Devon moves from every Thursday to the third Thursday of every month, still 7.30am. The morning itself is unchanged. We meet at Coastal Trail, walk down to Bayards Cove for a dip, then head back for a coffee and a chat.

One other change worth flagging. Sessions are now £5, which includes your coffee afterwards at the café. Just show your class booking confirmation when ordering.

Every session still has a focus. Julia Wingate takes the group through one skill at a time, so you leave having genuinely worked on something rather than just getting wet.

All levels welcome, including nervous swimmers and complete first timers. Julia is a highly experienced wild swimming teacher and the whole point is building your confidence in the water.

The details:

🎟️ Limited to 8 spaces, so booking ahead is essential
📋 First timers need to complete a short medical form beforehand
🎒 Bring a swim kit, a towel and warm layers for afterwards

Next session is Thursday 15 October, 7.30am. If you have been coming weekly, that is a few weeks off yet, so worth putting in the diary now.

Book at coastaltrail.co.uk. Coastal Trail, Dartmouth.

30/09/2026

October on the South Embankment 🍂

Classes, workshops and a very full Food Festival week. Here's everything on this month and how to book it. Save this one for later 📌

WEEKLY
🧘 Yoga with .with.ellahj, Mondays 7.30am to 8.15am at Coastal Trail
🤸 Pilates with , Wednesdays 7.30am to 8.15am at Coastal Trail
🍖 Sunday Roast, every Sunday 12pm to 3pm at Pontoon

MONTHLY
🍄 Wild Finds with BeWild, Sunday 4th, 10am at Coastal Trail
🏊 Guided Wild Swimming with , Thursday 15th, 7.30am. Meet at Coastal Trail

DARTMOUTH FOOD FESTIVAL
👨‍🍳 Matthew Tilt & Sons, Thursday 22nd, dinner at Pontoon
🐟 Fishmongers Table, Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th, lunch and dinner at Pontoon
🍽️ Crave, Friday 23rd, dinner at The Crafty Mussel
⭐ Glebe x Find & Foster, Saturday 24th, dinner at The Crafty Mussel

HOW TO BOOK
🔗 Pilates and Guided Wild Swimming: link in our bio. Wild swimming is free but there are only 8 spaces, and first-timers fill in a short medical form beforehand
🧘 Yoga: book directly with Ella .with.ellahj
🍄 Wild Finds: free to join, all the details at bewild.uk/wildfinds
🍽️ Sunday Roast and Fishmongers Table: no tickets needed, just book a table at Pontoon
🎟️ Food Festival dinners (Matthew Tilt & Sons, Crave and Glebe x Find & Foster): ticketed, grab yours via the Eventbrite (links

See you by the river 👋

17/09/2026

Dartmouth Food Festival is coming and we've got plans 👀🥐

We'll be releasing our line-up VERY soon. Think LOTS of bakes and a VERY good weekend.

Keep your eyes peeled.

📍 Coastal Trail

08/09/2026

Wood fired and open late this Friday & Saturday. 🍕🔥

Straight out of the oven, plus drinks and doors open until 8pm.

Weekend plans sorted.

03/09/2026

If you haven’t seen already, Guided Wild Swimming has moved to 7.30am, and from this month every session has a theme.

Julia from is taking us through a four week training programme, one skill at a time:

🫁 Breathing and head position
🌀 Hand entry and body rotation
⚡ Power and glide
🦵 Leg kick and sighting

Miss a week and it doesn't matter. Each session stands on its own, so come when you can.

Don't let the change in season stop you swimming. We meet at Coastal Trail, walk down to Bayards Cove for a dip, then head back for a coffee and a chat.

Free to join and all levels are welcome, nervous swimmers especially. Only 8 spaces each week so booking ahead is essential.

🕢 Thursdays, 7.30am
📍 Coastal Trail
🔗 Book at coastaltrail.co.uk

01/09/2026

31/08/2026

Regatta weekend at Coastal Trail:

Coffee > cinnamon buns > brunch > beers > pizza > live music

And it was MAGIC!

30/08/2026

Eat the cup 🤝 Zero waste coffee.

New on the coffee menu: CUPFFEE — a cup you drink out of and then eat. Baked from oat bran and wheat, and it tastes somewhere between a waffle cone and a biscuit.

It does the job of a normal cup, properly. Crisp for a good 40 minutes, and it won't go anywhere for hours after that - so no, it's not going to collapse on you halfway through a flat white.

The good bit: when you're done, there's no cup. Not a compostable one that still has to go somewhere, not a bin liner full of lids. You just eat it, and all that's left is the little paper sleeve.

It started with a guy in Bulgaria called Miroslav, who got sick of looking at the bins outside coffee shops and spent years working out how to bake a cup that could hold a hot drink. Took him until 2018 to get it right.

Add one to any coffee for 50p, basically a sweet treat waiting at the end of it.

Heads up: it's made with wheat and oats, so it's not one for anyone avoiding gluten.

📍 Coastal Trail, Dartmouth

26/08/2026

Brunch by the river. 🍳

Brioche French Toast, a table looking out at the Dart and nowhere else you need to be for the next hour.

Walk in only.

📍 Coastal Trail, Dartmouth