
Mupe Bay is a bay with a
shingle beach
A shingle beach (also referred to as rocky beach or pebble beach) is a beach which is armoured with pebbles or small- to medium-sized cobbles (as opposed to fine sand). Typically, the stone composition may grade from characteristic sizes ranging ...
to the east of
Lulworth Cove in
Dorset,
England, and is part of the
Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.

The bay exposes a sequence of
Cretaceous rocks from the
Bindon Hill
Bindon Hill is an extensive Iron Age earthwork enclosing a coastal hill area on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England, about west of Swanage, about south west of Wareham, and about south east of Dorchester. It is within ...
Chalk in the north through the
Wealden Beds
The Wealden Group, occasionally also referred to as the Wealden Supergroup, is a group (a sequence of rock strata) in the lithostratigraphy of southern England. The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental (freshwater) facies sedimentary ...
to the
Purbeck Beds in the south at Mupe Rocks.
Mupe Bay is only accessible when the
Lulworth Ranges are open to the public.
It can be reached by a walk from the car park at
Lulworth Cove.
To the south are Mupe Ledges and out to sea Mupe Rocks.
Black Rock is located at the eastern end of the bay.
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 ...
References
External links
Ian West's ''Geology of the Wessex Coast'' Field Guide including photographs
Bays of Dorset
Jurassic Coast
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