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Egmont Bight is a shallow embayment at the southern end of the Encombe valley in
On foot the stony beach is only accessible at low tide by walking west around Egmont Point from the beach at
Image:Egmont bight dorset.jpg, Egmont Bight
Image:Beach at egmont bight dorset.jpg, Stony beach, Egmont Bight
Image:Egmont bight east end dorset.jpg, East end of the beach
Image:Egmont bight western end dorset.jpg, West end of the beach
Image:Freshwater steps promontory east side.jpg, East side of the small Freshwater Steps promontory
Image:Cliff fall egmont bight dorset.jpg, Cliff-fall of shale on the beach
Bays of Dorset
Hills of Dorset
Jurassic Coast
Corfe Castle
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Dorset
Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...
, England. It is part of the Jurassic Coast
The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. It stretches from Exmouth in East Devon to Studland Bay in Dorset, a distance of about , and was inscribed on the World Heritage List in mid-December ...
.
Geology
The bay exposes good sections of Upper Kimmeridge shale and mudstone, with somebituminous shale
Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons can be produced. In addition to kerogen, general composition of oil shales constitute ...
and some small calcareous nodules.
On foot the stony beach is only accessible at low tide by walking west around Egmont Point from the beach at Chapman's Pool
Chapman's Pool is a small cove to the west of Worth Matravers on the Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset, England.
Geology
The rocks that form the cove are the upper parts of the Kimmeridge Clay, and are rich in fossils, especially bivalves and ammonite ...
. 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
This is a list of notable beaches in the United Kingdom.
England
* Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon
* Biggar, Cumbria
* Blackpool, Lancashire
* Blackpool Sands, Devon
* Bournemouth, Dorset
* Brean, Somerset
* Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire
* B ...
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