Ladram Bay

Ladram Bay is a secluded bay with a pebble beach, about 500 meters long, near Exmouth, in the county of Devon, on the English Channel coast of England. It is a bay, backed by high cliffs.

Location

Ladram Bay is located approximately 18 kilometers southwest of the city of Exeter, and one kilometer southwest of the village of Otterton. It is located about four kilometers southwest of Sidmouth and four kilometers northeast of Budleigh Salterton. Just southwest separates Small Stones Point Bay Chiselbury Bay. To the east is a hill name High Peak, including lie Hern Point and Big Picket Rock.

The Caravan Park at Ladram Bay is the second largest holiday center in Devon.

Geology

The coast and cliffs in the East Devon and Dorset on the English Channel are one of 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 has been declared as the first natural landscape in England by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site stretches. The pebble beach of Ladram Bay is part of the so-called Jurassic Coast.

• See also list of places on the 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 this area, progressively younger rocks form the cliffs to the east. The nature of revelations along the coast reveal a continuous succession of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods resulting geological structures and represent about 185 million years of Earth's history.

The resort is famous for the red sandstone rocks from the Triassic period. They date from the period about 220 million years ago. The rocks on the steep coast usually consist of various mudstone layers, but at the same time layers of Otter Sandstone. Both sediments are strikingly red. This is caused by iron oxide, and that testified that they were formed in a desert. At the southwest end of the bay, pale tubes can be seen in the sandstone. These were the roots of the plants that were able to survive in the harsh, dry climate of the Triassic.

The pinnacles in the bay are from the same rock layers as the cliffs, a relatively soft composition, but they have a harder sandstone layer as the pad that prevents its erosion by the sea.