Egmont Bight

Looking down on the gravel beach of Egmont Bight

Egmont Bight is a small, shallow bay on the English Channel coast, the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset in England. The bay is bounded on the west by Swyre Head and to the east of Egmont Point, the east is Chapman 's Pool.

Egmont Bight is located about two kilometers from west Worth Matravers, about eight kilometers south-west of Swanage and about five kilometers south of Corfe Castle.

The coast of Devon and Dorset are among the natural wonders of the world. From Orcombe Point in Exmouth, up to Old Harry Rocks, east of Studland Bay, a 155 km long coastline, which was taken as the first natural landscape in England by UNESCO in the World Heritage Site stretches. The cliffs and pebble beach of Egmant Bight are part of the so-called Jurassic Coast.

The rock layers along the Jurassic Coast are tilted slightly to the east. Therefore, the oldest part of the coast is found in the west, progressively younger rocks form the cliffs to the east. The nature of revelations along the Jurassic Coast reveal a continuous sequence of the resulting in the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous geological structures and present about 185 million years of Earth's history.

• See also: List of places on the Jurassic Coast