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Whitby

Whitby is one of the most iconic fossil localities on the Yorkshire coast, renowned for its rich Jurassic heritage and dramatic cliff scenery. While access to parts of the foreshore is tide-dependent and requires careful planning, the rewards can be considerable. The area is celebrated for its abundant ammonites, marine reptile remains and diverse shell beds, as well as for jet — fossilised wood from ancient conifer-like trees that became highly prized in Victorian jewellery. Its reputation means it is rarely quiet, but with patience and good timing.Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
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Saltwick Bay

Saltwick Bay is one of the most productive sites on the Yorkshire Coast, well known for its abundant ammonites, reptile remains and marine fossils. The foreshore is rich in fossiliferous nodules, often easy to split and frequently yielding well-preserved specimens. The bay is also famous for jet, a form of lignite historically used in jewellery, adding to its geological and historical significance.Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
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Port Mulgrave

Port Mulgrave is one of the most productive fossil sites on the Yorkshire Coast, famed for its abundant ammonites and rich Jurassic marine fauna. Once a thriving ironstone mining harbour, the foreshore now yields a wide range of fossils, including reptile remains, belemnites and nodules packed with ammonites, often exposed after cliff falls and erosion. With its combination of historical interest and exceptional fossil potential, it remains a must-visit location for serious collectors.Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
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Kettleness

Kettleness is one of the most productive fossil sites on the Yorkshire Coast, especially renowned for its abundant reptile remains, often found loose or within nodules along the foreshore. The site is also highly regarded for its ammonites, similar to those found at nearby Port Mulgrave, making it a top location for collectors seeking both vertebrate and invertebrate fossils.Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
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Staithes

Staithes is a popular and accessible Yorkshire Coast locality, well known for its abundant and easily prepared ammonites. These are commonly found within nodules along the foreshore or weathering out from ledges, often requiring only minimal effort to collect. While productive and close to access points, the foreshore near the beach entrance can be extremely slippery, so care is needed when conditions are wet.Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
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Robin Hoods Bay

Robin Hood’s Bay is one of the most geologically important sites on the Yorkshire Coast, known for its diverse ammonite fauna and extensive Jurassic exposures. While much of the central bay is covered by boulder clay, the foreshore and reefs to either side can be highly productive. Success here depends on conditions and experience, but with careful searching, a wide range of ammonites and other marine fossils can be found.Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦
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Runswick Bay

Runswick Bay is a highly regarded Yorkshire Coast locality, known for its diverse ammonite fauna and productive foreshore exposures. Under the right conditions, the bay can yield a wide range of ammonite species along with bivalves and other marine fossils, often found loose or within nodules. With its broad beach and regular fresh material from erosion, it can be a very rewarding site for collectors.Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦
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Reighton Gap

Reighton Gap is a useful stop along the Yorkshire coast, offering a mix of Kimmeridge Clay fossils and glacial erratics. When exposed, the clay can yield ammonites and marine shells, although productive layers are often covered and depend on scouring tides. The overlying boulder clay is particularly interesting, producing erratic fossils from Jurassic, Cretaceous and even Carboniferous rocks, giving a wide variety of finds in one location.Jurassic, Erratics (Jurassic, Cretaceous, Carboniferous), Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦
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Hayburn Wyke

Hayburn Wyke is one of Yorkshire’s most important and rewarding plant fossil localities. This site exposes Middle Jurassic rocks that have yielded an exceptional diversity of fossil flora. The fine-grained sediments here preserve delicate leaf impressions in remarkable detail, offering a rare glimpse into the lush, humid landscapes that bordered the Jurassic sea around 170 million years ago. Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦
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Speeton Cliffs

Speeton Cliffs are one of the most important Lower Cretaceous sites in the UK, with the highly productive Speeton Clay yielding ammonites, fish, shells and crustaceans. Often compared to the famous Folkestone Beds, the foreshore can be very rewarding under the right conditions. It is also a great location for families, although the clay can become extremely sticky and difficult underfoot in wetter months.Cretaceous, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦♦
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Locality photograph of Ravenscar

Ravenscar

Ravenscar preserves an unusually complete Lower Jurassic marine succession, with ammonites, shell beds and conspicuous concretions beneath high cliffs. However, the golf-course-to-beach path is closed following landslip damage; the geology described here is not an invitation to bypass that closure. Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦

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Locality photograph of Cayton Bay

Cayton Bay

Cayton Bay exposes a varied, faulted Jurassic coast where ammonites, bivalves, gastropods and brachiopods occur in several different rock units. Its famous Tenants’ Cliff concretions preserve remarkable shells, while sand cover, landslips and tidal exposure make both fossil finding and safe access highly changeable. Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦

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Locality photograph of Gristhorpe

Gristhorpe

Gristhorpe is renowned for delicate Jurassic plant fossils from the classic bed north of Yons Nab. The wider bay also exposes younger marine rocks with ammonites and shells, making precise locality and matrix records essential when interpreting finds from its varied shore. Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦

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Filey

Filey Brigg’s rocky promontory reveals Jurassic shell beds and striking fossil burrows in sandstone and limestone. Bivalves, brachiopods and occasional ammonites reward close observation, but tidal gullies, slippery platforms and unstable cliffs require a carefully planned visit. Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦

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Locality photograph of Scalby Ness

Scalby Ness

Scalby Ness is known for Middle Jurassic plant fossils, including ginkgoalean foliage, in the Long Nab Member. Shale slabs and channel sandstones preserve different parts of this ancient vegetation, while tidal channels and rough wet rocks make careful shore planning essential. Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦

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Sandsend cliffs and foreshore

Sandsend

The coast north of Sandsend exposes Lower Jurassic shale, ammonites and named concretion bands beneath cliffs altered by historic alum working. Marine-reptile remains are documented but exceptional, while slippery rocks, tidal cut-off and unstable cliffs make the northern shore demanding. Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦

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Locality photograph of Crook Ness

Crook Ness

Crook Ness opens onto the Burniston shore, where Middle Jurassic plant-bearing rocks and dinosaur tracks record rivers and vegetated floodplains. The Long Nab Member rewards careful observation, but fixed track surfaces, unstable cliffs and a rocky tidal foreshore need particular care. Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦

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Saltburn

Saltburn’s Lower Jurassic cliffs and rocky foreshore yield belemnites, bivalves, brachiopods and ammonites. Search the loose beach material east of the beck, where fossils weather from several different rock units beneath Hunt Cliff; the harder sandstone and ironstone blocks can be difficult to prepare. Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦♦

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Skinningrove

Skinningrove’s rocky shore is a useful place to examine Jurassic shell beds, animal burrows and rippled sandstone. The collecting area lies east of the beck, where hard fossiliferous blocks cover parts of the foreshore. Observation and photography are often more rewarding than trying to extract fossils, and the difficult, tidal route needs careful planning. Jurassic, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦