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Talacre's most famous sight is the Lighthouse located on the beach, as it is the location of numerous ghostly sightings. Some people claiming to have seen a figure wearing old fashioned lighthouse keeper clothes and standing in front of the glass dome of the currently abandoned lighthouse.
Written Aug 5, 2010
Address: Talacre Beach
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The beach and dunes are a great place for a walk when the tide is out. So many people just enjoying the fresh air here, lovely to see families out together. There is a cararan park just down the road so this is an ideal spot for them to enjoy the outdoors. Good spot for bird watching too - a bird hide is availble a short walk away.
Updated Nov 16, 2005
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Well this is the view of the Dee Estuary here. We had seen the Dee from the opposite side from our home town and is was so strange looking back across to our home - can't think why we had not visited here before in the 15 years we have lived over there.
Written Nov 13, 2005
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At high tide the water surrounds the lighthouse but forunately when we visited the tide was out and we could walk right along the beach to it. Unforunately it is not open to the public but the pools of water in the shallow sandbanks around it meant a perfect reflection shot for me :-)))
Updated Nov 13, 2005
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This lighthouse, built in 1776, once showed 2 lights -- one at 63 feet, looking seaward towards Llandudno, and one at 8 feet looking down the River Dee towards Dawpool in Cheshire. It has been inactive since 1883 but was restored in 1996. The tower was painted with red and white stripes with a red lantern while it was in service.
Updated Nov 13, 2005
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Talacre Beach was used extensively during WWII by RAF Fighter Command. Every day fighters would fly over the remote welsh village, shooting at wooden targets in the Sand Dunes and at Drogues towed by other aircraft, and as such the Dunes are a popular site for metal detectors.
The village was also used for the testing of new devices, such as 'window', the anti-radar foil which, on occasion, covered the whole village in silver.
Written Aug 5, 2010
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Favorite thing: The long stretch of beach following the estuary means its great conditions for kite flying and microlite fliers. Guess the view must be amazing from that height - not sure I'd be brave enough to try it myself though, looks a bit neve-racking being suspended like that!
Updated Nov 16, 2005
Talacre is in North Wales not far froom Prestatyn. Situated right at the mouth of the Dee Estuary this lighthouse is visible in the far far distance from our home town over on the opposite side of the...
Taking its name from the two welsh words 'tal', meaning 'end', and 'acrau' meaning 'acres', the small village of Talacre lies in Flintshire on the banks of the Dee estuaary. It is the site of the...
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