Eighteen miles of coastline win formal protection, joining 11 sites globally including Malibu and Santa Cruz
which offers surf therapy and has set up an adaptive surfing hub at Croyde for people with disabilities.Photograph: Nathan Adams
Another aim of the reserve is to promote the area’s surfing heritage, sometimes overshadowed by its noisier neighbour, Cornwall. Surfing took off during the second world war when US and Australian troops arrived, and in the 1960s and 70s surf shops such as, Kevin “Cookie” Cook, the chair of the trustees, said north Devon should be proud to be taking its place on the world stage. “We stand alongside anywhere in the world – Malibu, Noosa, wherever.
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