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Ruby Bay

A beach in Fife. By the sand: cafe or food, toilets, parking, lifeguards. Excellent water (2025).

On the beach

No. 1,700 of 1,883 as a wild beach, No. 26 for an easy beach day.

Water
Excellent in 2025, bathing water "Elie (Ruby Bay)" resultsScottish Environment Protection Agency, Bathing Water Points, checked 2026-11-01
Within 300 m
Cafe or food, Toilets, Parking, Lifeguards, Showers or water, Bus 250 mOpenStreetMap, checked 2026-10-29; stops from NaPTAN and Translink
Name
From the bay it lies in: the sand itself is unnamed on the mapOpenStreetMap, checked 2026-10-29
Size
About 1.2 hectares as mappedOpenStreetMap, checked 2026-10-29
Surface
SandOpenStreetMap, checked 2026-10-29
Position
56.1874° N, 2.8175° W
Getting there
Directions in Google Mapswhat3words addressOpen in OpenStreetMap

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