Chesil Beach (also known as Chesil Bank) in Dorset, England is one of three major shingle beach structures in Britain. [2] Its name is derived from the word chessil ( Old English ceosel or cisel ), meaning "gravel" or "shingle".

Nov 1, 2024 · Chesil Beach initially formed from predominantly sandy deposits in Lyme Bay as water levels rose rapidly at the end of the last ice age 20,000-14,000 years ago. These deposits were eroded and the sand and gravel driven onshore as a barrier beach.

Chesil Beach is a linear storm barrier that extends for some 28km from West Bay to the cliffs of the Isle of Portland. It is joined to the mainland at the eastern and western ends, but for 13 km is backed by the shallow, tidal Fleet Lagoon.

Chesil Beach is a massive, linear pebble and cobble coastal barrier/tombolo backed by cliffs at its western end and a lagoon, The Fleet, in its central and eastern parts. The beach ties the Isle of Portland to the mainland of Dorset. It is renowned worldwide especially for the size grading of its constituent clasts.

Chesil Cove, at the eastern margin of Chesil Beach. This image shows the precarious location of some of the houses in Chiswell, which lie below sea level and which are vulnerable to coastal flooding by both peroclation and over-topping. Major …

Chesil Beach is an 18-mile long shingle barrier beach stretching from West Bay to Portland and is one of Dorset’s most iconic landmarks. Contrary to Weymouth’s golden sands, Chesil is not your typical British beach lined with stripy deckchairs and pastel painted beach-huts but wild, rugged and at the mercy of Mother Nature.

Aug 20, 2007 · As constructive waves build up beaches, they often form ridges in the beach known as berms. The berm highest up the beach represents the extent to which the water has reached during high tide. Spits are long narrow ridges of sand and shingle which project from the coastline into the sea.

These include the 1867 chart of the northern Portland, the Chesil Beach and Weymouth (showing the originally very narrow, Small Mouth), a 1903 map of the Mere and adjacent Chesil Beach, a 1929 large scale map of Ferrybridge showing Small Mouth as it originally was.

May 16, 2022 · Chesil Beach is 18 miles (28 kilometres) long, 160 meters broad, and climbs to a height of 12 meters. It’s a pebble and shingle tombolo that runs from Portland to Abbotsbury, then north-west to West Bay in Bridport. The Fleet is a tidal lagoon with a …

Chesil Beach is an 18 mile shingle banked beach that runs from the Isle of Portland to West Bay. It forms part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.