St. Mary's Bay is a sand and shingle
beach located near the fishing town of
Brixham
Brixham is a coastal town and civil parish, the smallest and southernmost of the three main population centres (the others being Paignton and Torquay) on the coast of Torbay in the county of Devon, in the south-west of England. Commercial fish ...
,
Devon,
England. It was originally called Mudstone Bay because of the local mudstone bedrock of the cliffs.
It has footpath access from a car park and can be reached as a detour from a walk along the
coast path. There is a viewpoint on
Sharkham Point
Sharkham Point is a headland located close to the Devon fishing town of Brixham. It overlooks St. Mary's Bay and is a short walk away from Berry Head Country Park. This stretch was originally the Coastguard Walk along which the coastguards regu ...
above the beach.
Fossils
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
can be found here.
References
External links
Heritage CoastsSouth Devon - Area of Outstanding Beauty
Bays of Devon
Beaches of Devon
Brixham
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