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Bracklesham Bay

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Grid reference
  
SZ810952

Notification
  
1980

Elevation
  
1 m

Area of search
  
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Interest
  
Biological & Geological

Similar
  
West Wittering Beach, Chichester Harbour, National Trust ‑ East Head, Thorney Island, Fishbourne Roman Palace

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Bracklesham Bay is a coastal bay on the west side of the Manhood Peninsula in West Sussex, England. The bay looks out onto the English Channel and the Isle of Wight is visible from the beach, as is the Nab Tower lighthouse and the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth.

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Map of Bracklesham Bay, United Kingdom

The bay is sandy and backed with shingle. The beach is popular with windsurfers, divers, surfers (mostly longboarders given the nature of the waves), stand up paddle surfers, and also fossil hunters, as the Bracklesham Beds, a well known fossil bed, is visible at low tide. The bedrock is London clay, and bits of the clay can be found on the sands.

The villages of Bracklesham and East Wittering are situated in the centre of the bay and it is bordered by the town of Selsey on the southern/eastern tip, and the village of West Wittering on the west side.

The nearest city is Chichester, which is seven miles to the north.

In May 1944 Bracklesham Bay was one site used in Exercise Fabius. The remains of at least one Valentine tank can be found ten metres underwater.

Bracklesham Bay is mentioned in the track 'Saturdays Kids' (Paul Weller) on the 1979 album by The Jam, 'Setting Sons'; "Save up their money for a holiday/ To Selsey Bill, or Bracklesham Bay". Both places had Pontin's holiday camps.

References

Bracklesham Bay Wikipedia


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