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.

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]
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.
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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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