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Today at Speeton (Filey Bay)
Quiet dayWhy: Low tide falls mid-morning, though it is not an especially big one. No recent storms, so expect a picked-over beach.
Safe window: 8:43am – 11:43am
Leave the beach by 11:43am — the tide will cut off your route back.
Why: Low tide falls mid-morning, though it is not an especially big one. No recent storms, so expect a picked-over beach.
9° · overcast · Low tide: 10:43am (1.1 m), 11:01pm (1.2 m) · Wind up to 13 km/h · Waves 0.3 m
Safe window: 9:17am – 12:17pm
Leave the beach by 12:17pm — the tide will cut off your route back.
Why: Low tide falls at lunchtime, though it is not an especially big one. No recent storms, so expect a picked-over beach.
10° · mostly clear · 2mm rain · Low tide: 11:17am (1.3 m), 11:35pm (1.3 m) · Wind up to 16 km/h · Waves 0.7 m
Safe window: 9:50am – 12:50pm
Leave the beach by 12:50pm — the tide will cut off your route back.
Why: Low tide falls at lunchtime, though it is not an especially big one. No recent storms, so expect a picked-over beach.
8° · overcast · Low tide: 11:50am (1.4 m) · Wind up to 33 km/h · Waves 2.0 m
Safe window: 10:23am – 1:23pm
Leave the beach by 1:23pm — the tide will cut off your route back.
Why: Recent heavy seas should have washed fresh material onto the beach. Low tide falls at lunchtime, though it is not an especially big one.
6° · clear · Low tide: 12:10am (1.4 m), 12:23pm (1.7 m) · Wind up to 27 km/h · Waves 1.8 m
Safe window: 10:58am – 1:58pm
Leave the beach by 1:58pm — the tide will cut off your route back.
Why: Recent heavy seas should have washed fresh material onto the beach. Low tide falls at lunchtime, though it is not an especially big one.
6° · overcast · Low tide: 12:46am (1.5 m), 12:58pm (1.9 m) · Wind up to 17 km/h · Waves 0.9 m
Safe window: 11:37am – 2:37pm
Leave the beach by 2:37pm — the tide will cut off your route back.
Why: Recent heavy seas should have washed fresh material onto the beach. Low tide falls at lunchtime, though it is not an especially big one.
7° · overcast · Low tide: 1:26am (1.7 m), 1:37pm (2.2 m) · Wind up to 14 km/h · Waves 0.4 m
Safe window: 12:24pm – 3:24pm
Leave the beach by 3:24pm — the tide will cut off your route back.
Why: Low tide falls mid-afternoon, though it is not an especially big one. No recent storms, so expect a picked-over beach.
10° · mostly clear · Low tide: 2:12am (1.8 m), 2:24pm (2.4 m) · Wind up to 25 km/h · Waves 0.9 m
Work the clay-streaked beach at the south end of Filey Bay after scouring tides — small ammonites, belemnites and crushed shell patches weather straight out of the Speeton Clay onto the sand. Keep to the firm beach and off the wet clay flows.
Ammonites and belemnites weather out of the soft clays; crushed white shell patches often mark productive spots. Jet is matt black and feather-light. Free identification: the Rotunda Museum in Scarborough — the birthplace of English geology — welcomes enquiries.
This coast is a protected site (SSSI). What does that mean?
Allowed: Collecting loose fossils from the beach is long-established and accepted here.
Never allowed: No digging into the cliffs or hammering in-place rock on this SSSI coast.
Important finds: Report significant finds to the Rotunda Museum, Scarborough.
Rules can change — check locally before you collect.
Detailed location guide at UK Fossils →
Limited parking in Speeton village near the church.
None — nearest facilities in Filey.
Long path down through the fields and cliff to the south end of Filey Bay.
The Speeton Clay forms deep, boot-swallowing mud flows after rain — keep to the firm beach. Remote corner of the bay; watch the tide against the cliffs.
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