Description

St. Mary's Bay is a resort beach situated along a 20 kilometre (km) stretch of beach in Hythe Bay, Kent. Hythe Bay stretches from Folkestone down to the headland of Dungeness. The beach is predominantly shingle with wide shallow sand flats exposed at low water. Fine sediments suspended in the water column leave the water cloudy at times. There is a slipway just south of the bathing water sampling point.