Aerial photographs have revealed the extent of coastal erosion in a seaside village over the past two decades.
The images show what residents described as the destruction of the beach and sand dunes at Hemsby, Norfolk, by strong winds and high tides.
The village has lost an estimated 300 metres of coastline over the past 50 years, sending dozens of homes into the sea.
Not a great deal of sympathy there I’m afraid. We all know the story of Dunwich, yes?
A couple of weeks ago I explained to my youngest grandson how the north of England and Scotland were covered by a sheet of ice one mile thick around 25,000 years ago and that you could have walked from England to Holland as the southern bit of the North Sea did not exist. It was something he had never heard of.
Very well done the Department for
EducationIndoctrination…..Is this going to be another of those “We built our bungalow right on the edge of a cliff and it fell into the sea. Give us compo!” stories? I’ve heard them before.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-21153146
On the other hand……
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/why-was-hilary-benns-family-home-saved-from-the-sea-while-the-nearby-harbour-was-abandoned-6617988.html
The Horror.
NFN.
I can (vaguely) remember learning about isostatic rebound in secondary school geography in the 70’s; how this is still a shock to people is a bit of a mystery.
In Great Britain, glaciation affected Scotland but not southern England, and the post-glacial rebound of northern Great Britain (up to 10 cm per century) is causing a corresponding downward movement of the southern half of the island (up to 5 cm per century). This will eventually lead to an increased risk of floods in southern England and south-western Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound
I live on the South Coast and it is Landslip City.
Always has been.
We’ve found some 19th Century building journals where the consensus had been “what idiot decided to build a town here ?”
Actually the place only existed to serve the ( now gone ) army camp, whose land was nice and solid.
See also Hampton-on-Sea.
Most of Norfolk isn’t disappearing because it’s sinking, but because it’s being WASHED AWAY. From time to time I hear about people saying something like “if you go five miles out you’d be able to find Little Soddington under the waves”. No you won’t, it was WASHED AWAY. The land Little Soddington was on NO LONGER EXISTS.
Filey is near enough at the neutral point of the British isostatic rebound – neither going up no down – yet dozens of feed of land disappear every year – because it’s WASHED AWAY, as visible by the fact that the land tootles along and then there’s a sudden drop of 50 feet from field to beach.
@jonathan
Makes me wonder which end of the UK they are measuring those ‘rising sea levels’ at ?
They certainly tried for a long time to insist upon using the South Coast. Until that got too much for the comments sections….
Soon to be Hampton-in-Sea?
The land those bungalows were on used to be owned by evil capitalists NALGO. It was a holiday camp for union comrades. It closed because of erosion.
I used to visit often as my grandparents lived nearby. It was obvious those houses were doomed when they were built.
A bit of a kick in the groyne, that.
The answer seems clear. Nuke the fuck out of Scotland to push it down again.
Repeat as necessary.
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*checks picture* Hmmm.. looks like most of the belgian, dutch and danish coast.
*looks again, checks google maps* Hmmm.. there’s not a single coastal defense structure as can be seen on the dutch/belgian/danish coast *anywhere* ….
hmmm. yeah… And then they moan about “why does this happen to uuuusss?!!!” , figures….
Anybody seen where I left my magnifying glass last time? Got to find that damned violin again…
Norfolk’s actually alluvial deposits from the Rhine, isn’t it? From before the Channel opened? So Norfolk’s been washing away ever since Doggerland submerged. For “old stories” is this some of record?
Heh.. looking at the prevailing North Sea currents around there, that violin is even too big…
That’s the bit of british coast where a large circular current is pressed onto the *very soft* sandy coast like a chainsaw…
Even without any storms it would slowly be eroded away over time, and yet there’s literally nothing there built to protect that coastline…
Almost, BiS. Aeolic deposits from the last Ice Age. All the sand in the North Sea got blown in.
*Technically* from the Rhine basin, although the origins of the actual sand is what used to be where Denmark/northern Germany are now.
All ground up, pushed south, and blown away by the prevailing winds of the time into the North Sea basin when the ice walls retreated.
There’s some alluvial depositing, but that layer of sand is deep. Rivers merely messed around with some crayon compared to the bulk of it.
– Even without any storms it would slowly be eroded away over time, and yet there’s literally nothing there built to protect that coastline…
To be fair, Grikath, that is national policy not local. It has been decided that England will be allowed to just wash away (apart from establishment owned bits and the foreign controlled bit at the end of the Thames).
Much like the rest of national policy, really.
We were on the harbour walls you can see in the background about 12 hours before this happened. At this time of year you could say that most days if you visit West Bay given the number of land slips. The golf course on the cliffs must be keeping a golf architect permanently employed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3wxlk9ldgo