Egmont Bight
Egmont Bight is a shallow embayment at the southern end of the Encombe valley in Dorset, England. It is part of the Jurassic Coast.
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Looking down on the beach at Egmont Bight
Geology
The bay exposes good sections of Upper Kimmeridge shale and mudstone, with some bituminous shale and some small calcareous nodules.[1]
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Egmont Point, seen from St Aldhelm's Head
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
- List of Dorset beaches
References
Gallery
- Egmont Bight
- Stony beach, Egmont Bight
- East end of the beach
- West end of the beach
- East side of the small Freshwater Steps promontory
- Cliff-fall of shale on the beach
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