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.
Geology[]
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[]
- 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
Categories:
- Bays of Dorset
- Hills of Dorset
- Jurassic Coast
- Corfe Castle
- Dorset geography stubs