Pegwell Bay

Ramsgate · Thanet · sand and shingle

Vast mudflats and salt marsh; important bird reserve.

What the tide does here

At a spring high tide about 4% of Pegwell Bay is out of the water. By spring low that rises to 95% — around 613 hectares of sand and shingle.

Pegwell Bay at high water: the dry beach shaded on a satellite map — **High water, 4.7 m above chart datum.** About 5% of Pegwell Bay is out of the water.

Pegwell Bay at low water: the dry beach shaded on a satellite map — **Low water, 0.8 m above chart datum.** About 78% is uncovered.

Dogs

Dogs are banned all year from the mudflats, saltmarsh, saline lagoon and upper chalk shore at Pegwell Bay, which is a protected nature reserve.

Water quality

This beach is not a designated bathing water, so the Environment Agency does not sample it.

Lifeguards

No RNLI lifeguard patrol here.

Facilities

Nearby: public toilets and parking. Access: a step-free path, accessible toilets and pushchair-friendly access. Very flat; firm paths through nature reserve.

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Tide predictions © UK Hydrographic Office. Beach shape from Environment Agency LIDAR survey data, © Environment Agency, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Facilities and places from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Bathing water classifications from the Environment Agency. Satellite imagery © Mapbox, © Maxar.