The Museum of British Surfing opened its new exhibition and event venue in the centre of Braunton on the North Devon coast for the first time in 2012 and has gone on to win a national museum’s award.

Surfing has taken place on the area’s beaches since the early 1900s, and the village became a hub for the fledgling surfing industry in the 1960s and early ’70s with its position as a gateway to the beaches of Saunton, Croyde, Putsborough, Woolacombe and Westward Ho!