Coastal Erosion threatens North Eastern Norfolk housing
Continuing offshore aggregate dredging coupled with the recent powerful easterly gales have produced further escalated erosion along the East and North Norfolk coastline, much of which is populated and important to the Summer holiday market. We are again indebted to Aerial photographer Mike Page for these pictures.
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Bungalows now ‘on the edge’ at Hemsby South Marrams (South of Hemsby Gap) People are living in many of them full time (!)
Bungalows along the dune edge at Hemsby North Marrams, those to the North of Hemsby Gap. Pat and Norma Gowen’s is the second from the left, that nearest to the sea. Although the resulting levelling dune fall to restore equilibrium has yet to come, they may just about last out the Summer.
This photograph shows the 1945 WWII V2 crater once some 100 metres back from the dune edge. It was employed as a delightful sandy sun-trap, snugly out of the wind. Now the sea is about to break through the remains of the last dune to flood the entirety of the Great Winterton Valley. The floor of this valley is the original beach, which accreted to become enclosed by a series of high dunes until three years after intense offshore aggregate dredging commenced. Since then it has reversed by demonstrating continuous and escalating erosion.
