Kilve Beach

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Kilve Beach is a low, rocky foreshore of grey lias ledges on the Quantock coast, well known to fossil-hunters for the ammonites in its stone. Behind the beach stand a ruined brick retort, left from a short-lived scheme to extract oil from the shale in the 1920s, and an old chantry. Open access, down a lane and field path from Kilve village.

More places to visit near Kilve Beach

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Quantock Hills

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Holford

England's first protected landscape, a heather ridge above deep wooded combes, with red deer and the sea close by

King Charles III England Coast Path

National Trail

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

here · spans 24 counties

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St Audrie's Bay

Cove near Watchet

A secluded Quantock-coast bay of fossil-strewn ledges reached down cliff steps, with a small waterfall spilling onto the beach at low tide.

4 km W

Bicknoller

Village

Thatched village on the western Quantock slopes, with a red-sandstone church and a thousand-year-old yew in its churchyard.

5.8 km SW · Somerset

St George's Church, Bicknoller

Church near Bicknoller

Medieval Quantock-foot church with a carved wooden screen and a thousand-year-old yew shading its churchyard.

6 km SW

Stogursey