Watcombe Bay

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Watcombe Bay is a bay on the south west coast of the Isle of Wight, England. It lies just to the west of Freshwater Bay. It faces south towards the English Channel and is one of the smallest bays of the Isle of Wight. It is cut into the chalk cliff face of Highdown Cliffs. Its shoreline is less than 100m in length. Because of the steep cliffs it is only accessible by foot by scrambling round on the rocks from Freshwater Bay at low tide.The seabed is a mixture of mud, sand and shells. The beach is predomitly shingleThe bay is best viewed from the cliff top on the Isle of Wight Coastal Path which passes by the bay.