Ladram Bay, East Devon

Ladram Bay

George The Third Stack, Ladram Bay

Ladram Bay is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, and is located on the east Devon coast between Budleigh Salterton and Sidmouth. It can be accessed by road via the village of Otterton, or via the South West Coast Path. Ladram Bay is a secluded bay with a flint and chert pebble beach backed by tall cliffs of Otter Sandstone that represent deposits made in the Triassic Period around 230 million years ago. The bay is dominated by a number of highly impressive sea stacks, and provides interesting examples of cross-bedding, honeycomb weathering, and rhyzocretion fossils.
A fascinating coastal walk that takes in a section of the ‘Red Coast’ (including Ladram Bay) can be found in the ‘Places to Walk’ section.
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Paul Berry

Paul is a former Head of Geography and Assistant Vice-Principal. Paul took early retirement after 35 years as a Geography Teacher, and has written GCSE exam revision books for Collins, Hodder, and BBC Bitesize. He currently works as a Field Studies Tutor in Iceland for education travel company Rayburn Tours.

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