El. knyga: Lost to the Sea, Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: Norfolk and Suffolk

Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby. But the Romans and the Ravenser folk Lost to the Sea: Norfolk & Suffolk relates the stories of how the human communities along the coast of these counties maintained their struggle with the sea. From very early Neolithic times, when global changes created the Continental Shelf and raised the cliffs along Britains eastern shorelines, through Roman and medieval times, the first villages and towns were gradually established, only to be faced with the problem of the seas incursions onto agricultural land. In the 1950s, Rowland Parkers classic study of Dunwich, a key town of Suffolk engulfed, set the scene for a long-standing interest in how the seas challenge has been met. There have been successes and failures, and Stephen Wade tells the story of the seaside holiday towns and fishing communities that have had to struggle for survival.In this book, the reader will find stories of the people involved in this titanic effort through the centuries. The narrative moves down the coast from Hunstanton to Southwold, tracing the losses and the gains, not only in measurements of land, but in the tough human experience of that environmental history.