Seagrove Bay

Seagrove Bay
The pebble beach at Seagrove Bay
Seagrove Bay is located in Isle of Wight
Seagrove Bay
Seagrove Bay
Location within the Isle of Wight
Civil parish
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Isle of Wight
50°43′N 1°06′W / 50.72°N 1.1°W / 50.72; -1.1

Seagrove Bay is a bay on the northeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England. It lies to the east of the village of Seaview facing towards Selsey Bill with a 2⁄3 mile (1.1 km) shoreline stretching from Nettlestone Point in the north to Horestone Point in the south.[1] The bay has both the Seaside Award Flag and the Water Quality Award.[2]

Roughly at the centre is a public slipway, to the north of the slipway is a straight pebble beach and there are many shallow private mooring buoys out in the bay. At the southernmost end of the bay is a wooden walkway which gives access from the end of the seawall to Horestone Point and Priory Bay beyond even during the high tide. The bay previously had public toilets which were demolished in 2015 - with a new block set to be built. Though as of 2018 the construction is stalled due to a land-dispute and portaloos had to be installed at the beach for tourists.[3][4]

The bay is used in the title of the life peer Lord Oakeshott as Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, of Seagrove in the county of Isle of Wight.[5]

  1. ^ "Seagrove Bay" (Map). Google Maps.
  2. ^ "Welcome to Seagrove". Isle of Wight Council. Archived from the original on 8 March 2004.
  3. ^ "Seagrove Bay gets two portable toilets". Isle of Wight County Press. 7 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Seagrove Bay Toilets Update". Nettlestone & Seaview Parish Council. 5 July 2018.
  5. ^ Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay www.parliament.uk