Coastal Gifts for People Who Love the Sea: Ideas for Every Budget

Small coastal gifts and stocking fillers

For a small present, a keyring is hard to beat. The Puffin Keyring is a little 3D puffin about 3cm high, the Anchor Keyring is a proper heavy metal anchor on blue rope, and the Wooden Beach Hut Keyring is the sort of thing that stays on a bag for years.

Heritage Playing Cards are a favourite of ours: a normal 54-card deck in six illustrated designs, from Sea and Coastal Birds to Lighthouses, which suit caravans, holidays and rainy afternoons. For anyone who has ever had their chips stolen on a harbour wall, the Wooden Beach Sign With Seagull shows a gull with a fish in its beak.

Gifts for a coastal home

Decorative gifts are safest when they are small enough to find a home anywhere, or useful as well as pretty. The Wooden Harbourside Cottage and Boat packs a whole harbour scene into a narrow 27cm ornament, with a tied boat and a little string ladder. The Nautical Book Ends are a pair with a difference, one with an anchor and one with a rowing boat.

For someone who knows a stretch of coast well, the Land's End and Isles of Scilly shipwreck prints mark the position, date and type of each wreck, and they come rolled in a tube ready for framing. The Nautical Brass Ruler, engraved with the International Code of Signals flags, looks at home on any desk. More ideas are in our guide to nautical home decor, and you will find the rest in home decor.

Cornish pewter and silver jewellery

If you are looking for gifts made in Cornwall, our pewter jewellery was handcrafted and cast in Botallack, in the far west of Cornwall, by The Cornish Jewellery Company, using recycled tin and copper. Each piece comes in a gift box. The Cornish Pasty Pendant is the one that makes people smile, the Anchor Earrings and Starfish Earrings are subtle enough for every day, and the Bass Fish Cufflinks are a smart present for an angler who has enough tackle. We only hold small numbers of each design.

Our silver charms are solid 925 sterling silver with a lobster clasp, so they clip straight on to a chain. Start someone off with a Silver Charm Bracelet Chain and a Starfish Charm, then add another charm each birthday.

Gifts for seafood and food lovers

The Nautical Apron is hand sewn in the West Country from hard-wearing fabric, so no two are quite alike. The Great Cornish Fish Book is 170 pages of recipes and tales from Cornwall's coast, and £1 from each sale is shared by the Fishermen's Mission and the National Lobster Hatchery.

For a dinner party, the Lighthouse Cocktail Forks are a lovely small thing to give, and the How to Eat a Lobster placemats turn a seafood supper into an event. If they like to cook outdoors, the Deluxe BBQ Smoker Box Gift Set comes with six woods to try. We have more ideas in gifts for seafood lovers and gifts for food smoking fans.

Gifts for children who love the beach

A Kids Crabbing Kit is a good present to open in winter and look forward to all year. It has a bucket, a line, a seashore activity book and a waterproof crab guide, with a hook-free option for younger children. The bigger Family Crabbing Kit adds more for the whole family. Crabbing always needs an adult alongside, and our guide to crabbing kits for children helps you pick the right one.

For smaller budgets, the I-Spy At The Seaside pocket book keeps children looking at what is around them, and the Heritage Piccolori By the Sea Colouring Set is a calm indoor activity for ages 7 to grown up.

If they go fishing

Anglers are easier to buy for than you might think. Start with our guide to fishing stocking fillers, which sticks to small things they will actually use, then see gifts for fishermen and Christmas gifts for anglers for bigger ideas.

Sending your gift

Free mainland UK delivery on orders from £30, and orders placed before 3pm are normally dispatched the same working day. You can send a present straight to the person it is for: we leave prices out of the parcel, you can add a free message card, and you can ask us to hold it until a particular date. If you would like it wrapped, add gift wrap in your basket or at checkout.

Still not sure? Our 60-second gift finder narrows things down by who it is for and your budget, the gifts section has everything in one place, and a gift card always fits. Decorating for Christmas as well? See our coastal Christmas decorations.