Burnham Jetty North Beach

Burnham Jetty North is within Bridgwater Bay, part of the Somerset coast overlooking the Bristol Channel. It is a sand and mud beach resort, approximately 2.2 kilometres wide and backed by a sea defence wall. The beach has a shallow slope and a very large tidal range (11 metres). At low tide, the sea lies up to half a kilometre from the beach, inaccesible on foot due to the dangerous intertidal mudflats. The rivers Brue and Parrett both flow into the Bay just south of the beach. Bridgwater Bay is a National Nature Reserve; an important habitat for wading birds and many rare insects. Permanent advice against bathing is in place at Burnham Jetty. Burnham Jetty is no longer designated as a bathing water under the Bathing Water Regulations. The beach sits at the mouth of two large rivers, the Brue and Parrett which greatly influence the bathing water quality. Despite extensive investigations and investment bathing water quality cannot be guaranteed to achieve the Sufficient standard required under the Bathing Water Regulations.

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