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Charmouth beach and Heritage Coast Centre

Charmouth. A family beach famous for fossils, with a free visitor centre right on the seafront.

Charmouth's beach is one of the most popular fossil-hunting spots on the Jurassic Coast. Fossils wash out of the cliffs with every storm, so there's always something new to find among the pebbles.

The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre on the seafront has fossil displays and information about the coast, and runs guided fossil hunting walks.

As everywhere on this coast, check the tides and keep away from the cliffs.

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Charmouth beach with the cliffs stretching away along the coast
Photo: Vieve Forward, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped), via Wikimedia Commons

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