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Egmont Bight

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Coordinates: 50°35′42″N 2°4′38″W / 50.59500°N 2.07722°W / 50.59500; -2.07722
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Looking down on the beach at Egmont Bight

Egmont Bight is a shallow embayment at the southern end of the Encombe valley in Dorset, England, and is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.

The bay exposes good sections of Upper Kimmeridge shale and mudstone, with some bituminous shale and some small calcareous nodules.[1]

On foot the stony beach is only accessible at low tide by walking 1.0-kilometre (0.6 mi) west around Egmont Point from the beach at Chapman's Pool. There is no safe route down from the clifftop coast path, across Houns-tout cliff, nor around the Freshwater Steps promontory at the beach's western end.

See also

References

  1. ^ "West, I.M. (2007) Chapman's Pool (Chapmans Pool), Houns-tout and Egmont Bight, Kimmeridge region, Dorset; Geology of the Wessex Coast". Retrieved 2008-10-26.
  • Egmont Bight
    Egmont Bight
  • Stony beach, Egmont Bight
    Stony beach, Egmont Bight
  • East end of the beach
    East end of the beach
  • West end of the beach
    West end of the beach
  • East side of the small Freshwater Steps promontory
    East side of the small Freshwater Steps promontory
  • Cliff-fall of shale on the beach
    Cliff-fall of shale on the beach

50°35′42″N 2°4′38″W / 50.59500°N 2.07722°W / 50.59500; -2.07722

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