Bed to essentially relax in beach, somewhere in Britain (8)
I believe the answer is:
scotland
'in britain' is the definition.
('Scotland' is part of 'britain')
'bed to essentially relax in beach' is the wordplay.
'bed' becomes 'cot' (cot is a kind of bed).
'to essentially' means to look at the middle letters.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'beach' becomes 'sand'.
The middle of 'relax' is 'l'.
'cot'+'l'='cotl'
'cotl' going into 'sand' is 'SCOTLAND'.
'somewhere' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scotland that I've seen before include "Alban" , "The country of strange cold ants" , "It used to be called Caledonia" , "Land of clans and kilts" , "12 part of the UK" .)